Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Columnist Jimmy Breslin has put it, is to "build vacant lots for money." Charging up to $3,500 or a cut of the insurance money, the torch frequently mixes a brew of acid and sophisticated oxidizing agents to ignite a chemical fire that is all but impossible to trace...
Another Scot, the missionary-doctor David Livingstone, reached the Chambezi, the ultimate source of the Congo, in 1867. But it remained for his "rescuer," Henry Morton Stanley, to trace the Congo from its source to its mouth. In 1874 the onetime journalist, whose "discovery" of the supposedly lost Livingstone had made him an international celebrity, set out from England on a journey to resolve the riddle of the Nile's origin and to determine if the Lualaba, which Livingstone had believed to be a branch of the Nile, was really the upper Congo...
Julia's problems trace back to its source, a Lillian Hellman story that appeared in her 1973 memoir, Pentimento...
...skill, and Patricia Elliott is particularly winning as a perky lady's maid with a tongue of salt and a spine of spunk. Ste phen Porter directs with stylish assurance, and equal praise accrues to Richard Wil bur, the translator-poet. His springy rhyming couplets carry scarcely a trace of melodic monotony and he turns Moliere's French into buoyantly idiomatic English...
Menuhin has been privileged to follow an extraordinarily diverse career, from concert soloist to conductor, competition judge, enthusiastic festival leader and dedicated teacher of children. Nowhere in "Unfinished Journey" does he give an exhaustive discussion of technique. Instead, there are brief illuminations offered without a trace of condescension: an intriguing commentary on the opening bars of the Beethoven concerto, one of the fruits of Menuhin's own groping "from intuition through intellectual analysis to restored spontaneity," hints on teaching correct fluidity of motion and allusions to his practise of Yoga as an aid to technique. Finally, Menuhin offers a felicitous...