Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, hope returned. Lincoln Center's directors-tireless boasters before the hall was built-confessed that acoustical scientists had confirmed the findings of Schonberg's ear: the hall lacked bass, was haunted by echoes, needed a more equal diffusion of sound. Workmen arrived in June to raise and tilt the 136 acoustical "clouds" suspended from the ceiling, fill in most of the space between them, and build a reflecting musical shell behind the stage...
Partch's galloping whimsy-the very thing that has made him an admirably tireless pioneer-has also kept him a hopeless, penniless outsider all his life He conjures up such titles as Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball 1 earn in the Shower Room and Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet), and when he talks about his work he makes it desperately clear that he is working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer...
White Tie & Tales. An early and devoted disciple of Peacemaker Aristide Briand, Laval was a tireless negotiator of disarmament treaties. When these failed, he turned to his own grand design-a chain of mutual assistance pacts between France and all the countries that ringed Germany. As French Premier and later as Foreign Minister, Laval haggled his way through the capitals of Europe. Wearing his famous white tie and eternally rumpled blue suit as a trademark, he was a grotesque but effective figure, despite a deplorable tendency to try to cap anyone else's punch line. (When he praised...
...recover without serious brain damage? How long should first-aiders and physicians keep up attempts to resuscitate someone who is apparently dead? There are no precise answers to these questions, but the British Medical Journal reports the remarkable case of a child brought back from the dead by the tireless efforts of resourceful Norwegian doctors. The detailed observations that were made during the boy's stormy battle for life, says the B.M.J., will help medical researchers to fill in gaps in their knowledge of how to deal with such critical cases...
...visiting poetry professor at Oxford and (for 40 years) a tireless reformist inspector of the British school system. Critic Arnold had many a platform from which to praise past excellence and take potshots at John Bullish complacency. He had a gift for making a phrase stick. After Arnold so summed him up, Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has indelibly remained "an ineffectual angel." His fellow Britons Arnold divided into three groups: "the Barbarians [aristocracy], the Populace and the Philistines," an epithet which for Arnold summed up all the sins of the muscular, muddleheaded, self-satisfied British middle class. He takes...