Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found, "have remained lifelessly suspended in time like the Pyramid of Cheops." Says Hoving: " 'Parks are for people' is the most leaden statement, but it's true." And people need recreation. "Recreational facilities should have a flair," Hoving believes. "They should be spontaneous, offbeat, with a slight tinge of potlatch-letting everything go." Under Hoving, the Parks Department sponsored a Happening in which everyone painted anything on yards and yards of white canvas. When he found that a hill left during construction was the favorite area for boys in one park, he ordered it left there...
Died. Moses Hadas, 66, classical scholar and teacher, a slight, puckish Southerner with a flowing white beard and mustache who believed that the classics grew musty not in their content but in dated translations and interpretations, spent a lifetime renewing them in more than 30 highly esteemed books (including Hellenistic Culture: Fusion and Diffusion, Old Wine in New Bottles) and inspired lectures that filled the halls at Columbia University; of a heart attack; in Aspen, Colo...
...team of freelance operatives: a sadistic rapist, a dehumanized naval officer, a pimp, a homosexual, and a beautiful young girl who is not only an electronics genius but can tie knots in a string with her toes. The best thing about the book is that readers get a slight sporting chance. After Chapter 4, they are offered a choice of breaking a paper seal and going on, or returning the book with the seal unbroken and getting their money back...
...Sumphony of Psalms is always a treacherous adventure. Since it so often concentrates on developing a brief melody by very slight changes in the background harmony or by interchanging the chords backing up the melody, any subtlety of phrasing that is missed when the melody first appears becomes painfully magnified. Conductor Schmidt was most successful in evading this trap, leaving only the "Alleluia" motifs in the last movement a bit raw. A very strange circumstance about the performance was that the tiredness of chorus and conductor after wading through all that went before resulted in exactly the right amount...
...volume turned up all the way; but the living-room listener is safe. Ear-fearful citizens can tell when to start worrying by three Glorig rules of thumb. If a noise is loud enough to make people shout into one another's ears, or if it causes a slight temporary hearing loss, or if it brings on ringing in the ears, it can cause damage...