Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Emil Gilels; State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R. conducted by Kiril Kondrashin; Vanguard). Top-ranking Soviet Pianist Gilels. in a rare U.S. hearing, sounds every bit as impressive as his reputation. His tone can melt or soar, and he has power to spare. Recording: good...
After discharge, he was well ready to return to Harvard and the Bulletin. In spare moments he worked on The Harvard Book, an anthology about the College and its history. Published last fall, the volume has been chosen as the Harvard prize book, to be given to about 600 of the country's top juniors in prep and high schools. Bentinck-Smith denies any literary pretentions, however. He has tried creative writing and poetry, but "I don't think my mind works that way. I've always been very fond of editing...
...Senator will disclaim any knowledge or interest in many activities in which many people engage, and he will then stand in an exalted sort of position and we will all have to act like disciples of Father Divine." Millikin made a tiny bow at Douglas. "Good Father, please spare us from that...
...Western states last week, there was a feverish new boom in penny uranium stocks. People with a few spare dollars were taking flyers in such stocks as Uranium, Inc., Sun Uranium, Atlas Uranium. Penny Stock, and Uranium Corp. of America. The fever started in Salt Lake City, spread to Denver, and to the San Francisco Mining Exchange. There, said President George Flach, the uranium boom has brought "the brightest prospects I've seen around here in ten or 15 years...
...learned the art of finding or creating "spirits of peace" that alleviated earthly wretchedness. Alice in Wonderland is the bright vision by which he is known, but it is a mere fragment of the whole-a solitary chip off the imagination of a man who built wonderlands in every spare moment. First in his fancy came the new and magic world of photography, and only the large shadow thrown by Lewis Carroll has prevented the Rev. Mr. Dodgson from being famed as one of the greatest of early photographers. He was also fascinated by anagrams, cipher writing, riddles, word games...