Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twenties, Francis Poulenc. Theirs was a full-bodied sound, with the kind of focus and control that was totally absent in the Princeton group. The latter has the same basic sensitivity, but they lack the sheen and polish that make the Harvard Glee Club so irresistible in spite of everything. Both groups suffered from the chronic ills of large choruses: slipping intonation, unbalanced voices, cheating on high notes...
...loud and soft. Gone are the days when the winds thought so much of themselves and so little of the strings that the latter were helpless before the barrage of their sound. This year the strings are playing out and assuming their proper role with well-deserved confidence. In spite of flaws the HRO produces a good sound, with a greater sense of ensemble than many professional orchestras...
...court upholds the petition, will ballots be ready? McCarthy promised last week they would be, in spite of the City's current flirtation with a competitive bidding statute which seems to rule out signing a contract for the printing of ballots until Nov. 6, the day before the election...
Chimera & Despair. That viewers find themselves curiously moved by his powerful geometry delights Smith. "My own personal feeling," he says, "is that all my sculpture is on the edge of dreams. They come close to the unconscious in spite of their geometry. On one level, my work has clarity. On another, it is chaotic and imagined." The Snake Is Out, for example, coils for 24 ft. along the ground in back of Lincoln Center, bulging in its black skin like some prehistoric reptile. It propels the viewer to circle it and savor its tetrahedrons and octahedrons swelling and flowing...
...Yorkshire, the government rebated 45% of the cost be cause it lay in a depressed region. On top of that, notes a Shell managing director, F. S. McFadzean, "the Selective Employment Tax and another scheme known as the Regional Employment Premium reward hiring more labor at the plant in spite of the subsidy it already has for laborsaving equipment-and somebody else pays for it in higher taxes." He adds: "Profit is still a dirty word with this government...