Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever a new project stalls for lack of funds, a cry arises to the effect of "well, if we're worth a billion dollars and we have the largest endowment of any private university in the country, why can't we spare a few puny millions to build..." a new indoor athletic building, for instance. That billion is capital, Bennett stresses, "and once we start cutting into that, we're going to get busted." All the University can spend from its riches for the fiscal year 1967 is the $30-$40 million it will realize in income...
...MURDERERS AMONG US: THE WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS, edited by Joseph Wechsberg. The incredible career of Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who brought Adolf Eichmann and 800 other war criminals to final justice, is told in a spare, striking style reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op-now on international assignment...
...section outsparkled the others, it was "Rubies," in which Balanchine teamed with the composer who has inspired some of his finest ballets, Igor Stravinsky. For Stravinsky's spare, syncopated Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, Balanchine created lively, Broadway-flavored footwork. In the hot atmosphere of scarlet costumes and lighting, his dancers bobbed, swiveled and stretched in patterns of perky wit and sexy grace. Patricia Neary clowned elegantly, and Edward Villella and Patricia McBride drew cheers for the jazz joie de vivre with which they bounded through their intricate roles...
...Messiaen won the coveted organist's job at La Trinite church in Paris, and later a teaching post at the conservatory. Today, he still gives composition classes and plays for weekly Mass, occasionally enlivening a service with a hair-raising, dissonant improvisation on the organ. In his spare time, he labors at a scholarly tome on the subtleties of rhythm, which he regards as "the primordial, perhaps the essential, part of music...
...experts who have presided over our. Far Eastern policy in increasing error for the last twenty years and who now ask a closing ranks on the mistakes that brought us this misery in Vietnam--presumably so that they will be free to make ever greater ones. Nor do I spare the President whose Administration and responsibility it is. But let us not ignore the accomplishments of the Johnson Administration of these last three years. And let us see that some of the reaction these measures are encountering--notably to civil rights legislation in the North--is the best proof that...