Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again and again. Hoffa. regally referring to himself in the third person, grabbed the initiative, freely accused Bobby Kennedy of "headline hunting." once grimly threatened to sue him for making anti-Hoffa speeches...
When he was conducting his Third Symphony in Rome in 1934, Composer Sergei Prokofiev made a rare admission to a visiting musicologist. "This," said he, "is my best work, but only because The Flaming Angel is my greatest." Prokofiev had, in fact, lifted the Third Symphony almost entirely from The Flaming Angel -probably because he despaired of ever seeing his monumentally difficult opera produced. He never did: Flaming Angel had its first stage performance in Venice (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955) 2½ years after the composer's death. At Italy's Spoleto festival, which closed last week, Angel...
...ahead was Russia's tireless Alexei Desyatchikov. Yet the eyes were not on him. All heads turned toward the other three men-two Americans and a Russian-struggling against time and tortured bodies to win honor and points for their countries-three for second place, two for third, one for finishing...
...There is no sense denying that there are great differences in the standards of living of the Polish people and those of many other European countries," said Adam Szpunar in a talk on "The social and economic conditions in Poland and Yugoslavia," last night at the third public session of the Harvard Summer School International Seminar...
Peter De Vries had a lunch date in Manhattan recently with visiting British Novelist Kingsley Amis. De Vries spared no effort to round up a third for lunch, his New Yorker colleague, E. B. ("Andy"') White. The anticipated lunatic-fringe benefit: De Vries would breeze home to Westport, Conn, and tell his wife: "I had lunch today with Amis and Andy...