Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's an azalea, or I'm not from Decatur. Why, there's nothing "lily" about it. Yes, sir, I'd know an azalea if it was dressed in a clown suit, and an azalea is just what you've got under that CALLA LILY caption...
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Mehta's appointment ended a yearlong search at the Philharmonic. Sir Georg Solti, director of the Chicago Symphony, turned down the post last year. Cleveland's Lorin Maazel and London's pianist-conductor Daniel Barenboim were also mentioned. Mehta himself said no when first asked if he wanted to be among those considered. When the Philharmonic came back with a firm offer a month ago (for an amount undoubtedly in excess of $100,000), he gave in. "My decision was a hard one," he said last week. "But New York is the center of the world...
Healey had probably gone about as far as any Labor Chancellor could ever be expected to go. Nonetheless, the Confederation of British Industries denounced the program as "too little, too late." Tory Shadow Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe called it "a devastating admission of the government's huge mistakes in the past." The drastic austerity plan, said Liberal Party Spokesman Richard Wainwright, was the price for "years of debauchery conducted on tick [credit]"-Britain's version of the installment plan. Though left-wing Laborites denounced the White Paper as a "document of shame," other party stalwarts were more sympathetic...
...Spellman didn't fit in at Harvard. For one, A.B. (and everybody called him that, not Mr., or professor or sir) believes that there are other ways to teach students besides boring them with texts or testing them until the information, however unimportant, is understood...