Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still speaks persuasively." The Eighth Symphony won a standing ovation ("Moments of true greatness," wrote the Daily Telegraph), and some listeners found the string quartets-particularly Nos. 5 and 7-to be as fine as any of the orchestral music. But with the Western Premiere of the massive, bombastic Twelfth Symphony, the response changed-as if a totally different composer had appeared on the scene. The Twelfth, said the Daily Herald, was a "crash dive into banality." Wrote Critic Noel Goodwin of the Daily Express, noting that the symphony celebrates the October Revolution of 1917: "It is an exhibition...
...Reading comprehension is low: the average U.S. twelfth-grader understands only 67% of what he reads in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins, only 28% of Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus. The rate for magazines is 78% for Modern Screen and Silver Screen, 54% for the Saturday Evening Post, 35% for TIME and 28% for the Atlantic...
...schools need more individual pace-setting to unleash the gifted: about 30% of ninth-graders scored higher on general information tests than average twelfth-graders. > Reviewing is an overlooked art: tenth-and eleventh-grade girls knew less about science than girls in ninth grade...
...guns. One night last week, when 16 Negroes gathered before the city hall to pray and sing hymns, Pritchett angrily rushed to the scene. He was irritated, he explained, because he had been told that the Negroes would forgo a demonstration that evening so that he could observe his twelfth wedding anniversary at home in peace. The Negroes obligingly dispersed, and Pritchett went home to continue his family celebration...
...them, Pitchers Whitey Ford and Luis Arroyo had won 40 games in 1961. Roger Maris had clouted 61 homers; Mickey Mantle had hit 54; Catcher Elston Howard had batted .348. The slick-fielding Yankee infield was the best in baseball. The Yankees seemed a sure shot to win their twelfth pennant in 14 years...