Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Pyrenees, where Casals, until his recent move to Puerto Rico, made his home, calls at the gatehouse he lived in, watches the master give a lesson ("Don't think too much, just feel it"), and then settles down in dimness and the shapely silence of a thousand-year-old church to hear the cellist play Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello...
Story or not, thousands of people crowded the Malls of the Scandinavian countries where indoor facilities were too small for his concerts. "You just have to introduce your songs a little slower, and sing a little slower," he said and probably they don't understand a lot of the words. But still, thirty to forty thousand people every time...
...pastor of the nondenominational American Church in Paris, Dr. Clayton Edgar Williams, tends a parish that is 49 miles wide, includes only a few thousand resident Americans. But each year some 400,000 U.S. tourists, soldiers and businessmen flock to Paris, and a sizable minority of them find their way to the American Church. Their needs are often unusual: a tired, broke G.I. awakens Pastor Williams at 3 a.m., asks for and gets a bunk for the night; an Air Force captain learns that his nephew has been killed in a street accident, and Dr. Williams opens the church...
Maxim us or Optimus? In pages as crowded but unhurried as a Bruegel canvas, Historian Durant shows the life and customs, major sins and minor pastimes of his period, stopping along the way to sketch in a thousand odd facts and arresting faces. The volume ranges over the whole of Europe (with major side trips to Persia, Russia and the New World), from 1300 to 1564 A.D. There is a bit of everything in the book-politics, war, art, architecture, philosophy, commerce, science-all by way of scene-setting for the great central struggle. Durant devotes a third...
...peace which existed before the race issue arose and put the blame for the current situation on Negroes and Northern "agitators." A smaller number of people feel that Arkansas authorities failed to pass a very simple test--the integration of nine Negroes into a school of two thousand...