Word: tore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short works, The Harmonious Blacksmith, that remains the best single recorded introduction to the instrument and its music. This week Angel, for whom Kipnis has recorded since 1972, releases a two-LP album called The English Harpsichord. Company officials are so pleased with Kipnis that they recently tore up a new two-year contract and rewrote it for five. Says Kipnis: "I like the wildly uneven rhythm of that...
...named for St. Joseph learned that one of its parishioners, lately forced into bankruptcy, was about to lose his house. Remembering a device used during the Depression, Father John Carew, 70, announced formation of a Save-a-Home Fund. When he made his appeal, Carew said last week, churchgoers "tore the place down with their clapping." The collection produced $5,000-enough to stave off the foreclosure and to help others that the recession threatens to turn out of house and home...
...moral teachings. Readers have been scandalized by a horrible incident in 11 Kings that tells how the prophet Elisha was taunted for his baldness by a group of youngsters. The prophet cursed the boys "in the name of the Lord," whereupon two bears came out of the woods and tore them apart. More immediate for Christians are the troubling "dark sayings" of Jesus like his warning that "I have not come to bring peace but a sword." One dire command is that a disciple must "hate his own father and mother and wife and children." Literal readings of such passages...
...blues electrified, rough music from back of the barn. English groups who adopted the sound in the late '60s did little to improve the image with guitar smashing and satanic prancing. When 16-year-old Singer Maria Muldaur proudly brought home her first recording contract, her mother immediately tore it up. Says Maria: "She was afraid it would lead me into white slavery...
...Space Administration (NASA) into Kendall Square to develop a $60 million electronic research center that was to help pave America's way to the moon and provide a gleeful MIT with a wealth of related research jobs. To make way for NASA the city relocated some businesses and tore down others, resulting in the loss to Cambridge of nearly 3000 jobs...