Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spare-time composer who wrote most of his music early in the century, professional Insurance Man Charles Ives (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948) managed to anticipate most of his contemporaries. Often based on old hymn tunes, his music abounds in polytonal harmonies, complex rhythms; much of it is log-cabin crude and just as American. Symphony No. 3, finished in 1904 and revised in 1911, gathered dust in Ives's Connecticut barn until 1946, when it got its first performance and won him a Pulitzer Prize. The calm first movement is particularly prizeworthy. The National Gallery Orchestra (Richard Bales conducting...
...Associated Press prizes objective reporting of the news so highly that at times its spare, fact-packed stories are downright dull to read. Thus it was something of a surprise to 500 newsmen gathered in Atlanta last week for the annual A.P. managing editors' meeting to hear the A.P. accused not only of bias but of left-wing bias at that...
...Blake's coat is too long," Grigson concludes, "and he can spare an inch or two for his now destitute forerunners." But Blake well deserves his long coat. Like a great artist, and unlike Fuseli, Mortimer and Barry, he pictured the heights with as much vision as he did the abyss...
Last week Dr. Granirer gave striking evidence to the Society of Medical Jurisprudence that his hunch had paid off. A healthy woman after a normal delivery can readily spare some blood; from each volunteer, Dr. Granirer took about seven ounces. The plasma was pooled and about half a pint given to bedridden arthritis victims. After a few weekly transfusions, each recipient gained weight, lost pain and swelling, felt better in every way. By way of proof, Dr. Granirer showed movies of former cripples jumping rope...
Hitler: But certainly you don't care about that junk. You can easily spare that...