Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music that poured from radio and television loudspeakers at week's end, as Arturo Toscanini began his 14th NBC season, bore little trace of the loneliness he feels. As ever, once on the podium, he was concerned only with the feelings Brahms put into his Symphony No. 1 and Weber into his Euryanthe Overture. At 84, Toscanini projected those feelings with a power, clarity and precision no other living conductor can match...
Tiger alumni sometimes trace their alma mater to the charter granted the Presbyterian "New Jersey College of New Jersey" in 1746. But in fact, this charter was never recorded and its validity is doubtful because it was issued by only an acting governor without permission of either the home government or the provincial legislature. Orthodox Anglicans seized this issue of legality and were pressing for annulment of the charter when Harvardman Jonathon Belcher, Class of 1699, stepped in to save the embryo college from extinction...
...calls forth contempt and distrust, and such connotations grew, in 1951, with disclosures of corruption and shoddy politics in high places of the U.S. This growing contempt and distrust came at an unfortunate time; in 1951, many of the gravest problems facing the U.S. were political. Churchill, without a trace of shame, calls himself a politician. He means that by aptitude, training and choice, his business in life is to deal with problems of man and state, and state and state...
...originate or support new civic improvements. We stay out of partisan politics and national issues." Spencer also believes that "there is such a thing as a common denominator of decency, fair play, and honesty among the voters. If you've got the ability to find a trace of this in the people, then you'll be joined by all of them and you will grow...
Aaron Copland, a tall, stooped, rather ingenuous man with greying wispy hair and the trace of a Brooklyn accent, has never had a steady job. He has drifted around from Tel Aviv to Hollywood, varying his work for each different audience, and in the process contributing probably more to contemporary music than any other living composer...