Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...myself," Cooke says. Rather, he is a once-over-lightly man who hovers at ease between two worlds. Though he has lived in the U.S. since the late 1930s and became a U.S. citizen in 1941, he has resisted total Americanization, and maintains a reasonable facsimile of a British stiff upper lip. He has lost much of his Brit ish accent, but then it is not American either; it has been dubbed a "NATO accent." Always keeping an eye cocked for"what's American in America," he brings an outsider's enthusiasm to the U.S. scene, putting...
While the tax itself ranges from only 10% to a limit of 45%, it comes on top of Britain's already stiff regular income taxes. The result is that taxpayers now have to pay at least 690 on every dollar of investment income over $7,200. The total tax rate rises to 100%. when so-called "unearned income" reaches $43,200. After that, taxes actually exceed income. For example, people with investment income of more than $120,000 have to shell out at least $1.26 on every dollar over that amount, making it necessary to dig into capital...
Playing in a stiff, biting wind at Tufts' Sagamore Springs course, the Crimson outclassed both opponents with consistent fairway shooting. But even the Crimson could not handle the grassless greens which Bruce LoPucki, Harvards number two man, described as cow pastures...
...itself is unpopular, and most students would rather gamble on the uncertainties of the draft than join cadet programs, which include at least two years' active duty as a military officer. Besides, the current college generation takes an anti-Establishment view that scoffs at polished buttons and stiff-necked discipline. A military regimen has become an unappealing burden to add to academic chores...
Much more is necessary to raise a performance beyond this simple level. The introspective Chopin Ballades demand an affinity for the unique style in which they were conceived. This is a stiff order for a young pianist but he must--through coaching or through other methods of consciousness expansion--steep himself in the nineteenth century romantic tradition. Indjic, did not show sufficient feel for rubato--the subtle expansions and contractions of meter. And he also lacked a discriminating taste for the shifting counterpoints--phrases, fragments of phrases, even single notes--which must be emphasized as well, to project an interesting...