Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bronx. He is Murray Perahia, 29, a slight, dark, fine-boned pianist who looks rather like some 19th century poet. The music he favors is gentle too. Playing Mendelssohn or Chopin, he closes his eyes, lifts his face toward the ceiling, and effortlessly-sometimes while smiling whimsically-spins out a bright melody. Yet later on in a program, he can also hammer out Bartok with enough flash and thunder to rival anyone's musical fireworks...
...spokesman said that since the fictitious names signed to the letters were not explicitly identified as belonging to Harvard students, the kit salesman was guilty only of "slight deception," not fraud. The signed names, Dave Lill '77 and Gerri Pastreck '77, are not registered with the University...
Applications to the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department stayed the same, while the History of Science department experienced a slight decrease, officials of those departments said...
January 2--A slight case of the flu kept me in bed for New Year's Day, but Enrique went out drinking, and told me that the curfew had been relaxed to 3:30 a.m., but that there were police and soldiers with their sub-machine guns on almost every street corner. The curfew, which continues more than two years after the coup, usually begins at 1 a.m. and ends at 5:30 a.m.; anyone caught in the streets between those hours is taken directly to jail for the night...
...foreigners who were present, the protest soon expanded into a general expression of rage against the radical drift of Chinese politics since Chou's death. One eulogy pinned to a memorial wreath pointedly praised Mao's late second wife Yang K'ai-hui-an unmistakable slight to the Chairman's current (and fourth) wife, Radical Leader Chiang Ch'ing, who is Teng's implacable enemy. Even more astonishing, a poem circulated at the protest read: "Gone for good is Ch'in Shih Huang feudal society." Ch'in Shih Huang was the emperor...