Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The North American Figure Skating Championships from Montreal...
...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). National Indoor Tennis Championships from Salisbury...
...ruin if they lost circulation the way leading Soviet dailies did last year. Izvestia, the government paper, was down 300,000 (to 7,500,000). Komsomolskaya Pravda, the journal of the Communist youth, was down 500,000 (to 6,300,000). Pravda, the official party mouthpiece, suffered the most spectacular drop of all; it was down 1,000,000 copies (to 6,000,000). But oddly enough, the decline is a healthy sign of sorts...
...Menschen, Ruehmet Gottes Liebe" (BWV 167), and the motet "Komm, Jesu, komm" (BWV 229) elegantly and unpretentiously. They produced a full but never heavy sound; the chorus's long threads of melody were sung smoothly and sensitively; the diction was inpeccable. Collins's phrasing and dynamics avoided the spectacular, but could be striking on occasion through their subtlety. He chose to take the final cadence of "Der Herr denket" simply and quietly, rather than grandly and pompously; as a result, this cadence was one of the most satisfying moments of the evening...
Harvard's performance in the weights was solid, if not spectacular. Ron Wilson's 57 ft. 10 in. in the 35 lb. weight and Bruce Hedendal's 43 ft. 5 in. in the shot put earned second places. But in its weak events Harvard zilched the broad jump and got a cheap second at 6 ft. in the high jump...