Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Syracuse claims to have, like the Crimson, an inexperienced squad, with sophomores in the stern three. It is, however, a big one, averaging 187 pounds. The boat has had plenty of practice, getting in more mileage than usual, according to the coach...
...with a headset radio on which he could follow the trial in four languages-French, English, German, Hebrew. If a reporter missed anything, he could refer to a daily mimeographed record of the court proceedings-also in four languages, plus a summary in Yiddish. Even the trial's stern security measures were gracefully applied: one radio newsman who surrendered a broken tape recorder for police inspection got it back repaired...
Secondly, she confessed to a superstitious fear of the pleasures of talk as opposed to the stern rigors of writing. Finally, she expressed a dislike for autobiographical discussion, calling it a process as impossible to carry on dispassionately as "regarding your own legs...
...Benny" was the billing for the concert honoring the onetime boy violin prodigal, now 67, who in the past few years has scraped away to raise more than $2,000,000 for symphony orchestras in 16 U.S. cities. Climax of the evening was the appearance of Carnegie President Isaac Stern, who joined the comedian in Bach's Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins. In the afternoon rehearsal, while Benny fiddled, Stern burned: "I wish you'd play C-sharp." "Where?" wondered Benny. Advised Stern: "Where it's written." But during the actual program, Jack somehow rose...
...cogently than any words. That was in 1907. For reasons unknown. Violinist Geyer never played the work publicly, and at her death in 1957, twelve years after Bartok died, she left the manuscript to Swiss Conductor Paul Sacher. who performed it in Switzerland in 1958. Last week Violinist Isaac Stern, playing in Carnegie Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra, introduced Bartok's long-lost concerto to New York concertgoers...