Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this grim dramatization of a Zola story, the "best-looking man in the neighborhood"--to whom the lame Gervaise has been informally married for seven years--runs off with another woman, leaving the destitute heroine with two children. At the end, with her legal husband--with whom she had spent a few happy years--dead, Gervaise is homeless and penniless, sitting dazed and sullen in a small...
...Long Wait. "Everything," in fact, was never better. At that moment, the U.S. House of Representatives was approaching a final vote on the Hawaii statehood bill, passed overwhelmingly (76-15) by the Senate the day before. Now, after 59 years of territorial status, 40 of them spent waiting impatiently for statehood, Hawaii was on its way. For years congressional opposition had been overpowering, for the pivotal Southern bloc of Democrats never relished the idea of a new state whose population and character was so seemingly alien-and so Republican to boot. It looked dark for Hawaii last year, too, when...
...dispel the notion, widely held in France and Germany, that Britain was about to sell the West's family jewels to Russia. In Paris one of Macmillan's aides gave a rueful rundown of the initial discussions between his boss and De Gaulle. Said he: "We spent the whole day shooting down three ideas. The first was that we British were 'disengagers.' The second was that we were just plain yellow, and the third was that we had separated from the rest of the girls' school...
...Dwight Dogherty '59, deemed the lack of publicity as the greatest problem of the kitchen authorities. Dogherty suggested hiring a full-time public relations director, but this suggestion, although aimed in the right direction, has definite drawbacks. The wages paid another official in the hierarchy might better be spent in research or in sauces for the turkey...
...seconds); virtually every work is full of silence; the sounds heard are frequently very soft and are clearly the result of delicate calculation. There are few mass effects--rather, the attention is concentrated upon a succession of single tones. There is formal economy, too: the care Webern spent in organizing his structures finally resulted in pieces in which every note is closely related to a small amount of material--perhaps only a few notes--presented at the beginning...