Word: surer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tullio Serafin; RCA Victor). One of the youngest (25) and most gifted of the new generation of home-grown U.S. divas visits some familiar operatic landmarks, examining them with taste, agility and dramatic flair. The voice-silvery in the upper registers, amber in the lower-has rarely sounded surer...
Slower but Surer. Such a take-off can be accomplished in various ways. To judge from their scanty description, the Russians separated a "guided space rocket" from the main body of their sputnik, and pointed it in the correct direction, presumably by discharging small rockets or gas-jets. When it reached the preselected point on its orbit, the main rocket fired, contributing additional push that made the station spiral away from the earth and curve inward toward the sun and the orbit of Venus (see diagram...
...better," he painted everything from the Baptist Sunday school he had attended, to a memory called "The Lightning That Struck Rufo Barcliff it killed him." By last week, as his latest one-man show was being put together at Manhattan's Alan Gallery, his hand was surer than ever, but his heart was still at home...
When should college planning begin? Parents may ponder the answer of M.I.T.'s Director Thresher: "At approximately the age of one year." Thresher warns parents who set impossible goals: "There is no surer prescription for failure in college." He means only that a child's innate curiosity should be nurtured sanely from the start. If he grows up wanting to learn, "he does not have to be 'entered' in a college. He enters himself...