Word: tappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earsplitting nightclub. It is the homesick croon of a West Indian immigrant, the glint of a switchblade in a teen-age rumble, the patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson in a fuchsia Cadillac; Josephine Baker in a banana-laden G-string; pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio, haranguing a street-corner crowd; Father Divine in his special heavens, and-most recently-Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church...
...MIFERMA will develop electric power and provide fuel oil, build a 400-mile railroad from the iron mines to Port-Etienne, widen and improve Port-Etienne itself. After completion, the port facilities will be turned over to the government. Also important to parched Mauritania, MIFERMA will drill wells to tap the underground reservoirs recently discovered not far from Port-Etienne...
...Radio Tap. When he was not yet 20, Markevitch studied conducting for several months with Scherchen ("Sometimes he would wake me up at two in the morning to say he felt in the mood to give me a lesson"). World War II helped nudge him into a fulltime conducting career...
...special interest is working out a more exact conducting vocabulary; strictly defined movements by the conductor, he feels, ought to evoke a strictly standardized response from the orchestra. But he is also concerned about the response of his music-glutted audiences. "To have Beethoven coming out of the radio tap from morning to night," says Markevitch, "is worse than not knowing Beethoven...
...bottles (about a quart), enough for 500 doses. A nurse drew 2 cc. (half a teaspoonful) at a time with a bulb-type dropper, put it in a tiny paper cup. Another worker added about a tablespoonful of water-distilled, to guard against the possibility that chlorinated tap water might reduce the vaccine's potency...