Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the Ages. Frost's first two books, A Boy's Witt and North of Boston, came out in England first; published soon after in the U.S., they had made him famous before his return in 1915. They were masterly first books; the poet's own obscurity...
Last week, comfortable in blue knee-length socks, red fur-trimmed bedroom slippers and a loose-fitting smock, the great harpsichordist was finishing up the first sixth of a monumental recording task begun in her 70th year. In the darkened studio, her eyes closed, she began to play the great...
She had been playing Bach on the harpsichord in public for 46 years: the great Hungarian conductor, Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922) had long ago punningly tagged her "The Bachante." And she had performed all of Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier last year in a series of Town Hall...
Somehow, Dostoevsky managed to edit The Citizen regularly all through 1873. Early the following year he quit his job, but in 1876 he decided to launch Diary, an all-Dostoevsky monthly of his own. It appeared irregularly until shortly before his death, in 1881. He wrote all the copy himself...
He had suspended the Giants' bad-tempered manager as a "preventive" not a "punitive action." The evidence assembled against Durocher had been "contradictory" and he was lifting the four-day suspension.