Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eleven, was once so ill that he missed more than half a year of first-grade fundamentals. In a graded school, says his teacher mother, he might never have caught up. "In the ungraded plan, he missed absolutely nothing, going along very slowly until he was able to step up with the fast group...
...Journal pointed out that the Government goes a step farther than the pickpocket. "We are told that the good effects of all this are enhanced if the Government, unlike our friend on the subway, can spend more than it takes, or at least seem to. Big deficits, especially those arising from tax cuts, allow more dollars to be put into some people's pockets without appearing to take quite so much out of other people's pockets." While this is illusory, "there's no denying it's less painful to steal a bit from everybody...
...that Gee-gee stood for Golden Gloves, which he was going to win." Around Grand Avenue, Cassius was known as a prodigious eater, a pretty good rock fighter, and a deadeye marble shooter-when his parents let him out of the house. "Don't you take one more step," his mother ordered one day, as Cassius started down the front steps. Deliberately, he took one-just one -more. His mother said. "Daddy will strap you," and sent him to bed. Cassius used to dream that some day he would be big enough to walk around the block...
Last week Burger announced that he will soon step down from his job to devote more time to the philanthropic Hartford Foundation. In what seemed to be a peacemaking gesture toward the family, five more outside directors were added to the A. & P. board (bringing the outside force to 11 out of 25 directors), including three of the family attorneys. At this point, it is still unclear whether Ehrgott will step up to run the company or, if not, who will...
With increasing serialization, indications for the performer have become more and more exact, more and more demanding; they reached the point that the performer could no longer fulfill them, and had to decide for himself how to interpret the work. Thus, if the composer is not to step from total control to no control, he must make the performer a partner in the creation of the sounds. At the same time, Ligeti has suggested, the breakdown of the tonality which required playing in one direction (forward) only, has created forms that can be passed through in several directions in time...