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...Randall Thompson displayed control and lightness, the Thompson work being of peculiarly obvious but quite appealing construction. Two 17th century "ayres" by John Hilton and two 16th century chansons by Claude Le Jeune were sung delicately, but the chorus's diction was not always good. In a more lyrical vein, two songs of Brahms and one of Schumann were wonderfully rich and fluid, the latter ending softly with well-controlled dynamics...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Radcliffe Choral Society | 3/18/1961 | See Source »

Bruce was soon well enough for the 90-mile ride to Billings, Mont. There X rays located the bullet - in Bruce's left knee. Evidently the bullet had hit a rib, lost its momentum, entered the pulmonary vein carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart's upper left chamber. Car ried along with the blood, the slug went through the mitral valve into the left ventricle and up through the aortic valve. It turned downward at the aorta's arch in the upper chest, and traveled through the femoral artery until this became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: . . . It Comes Out Here | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...back for another example: the suppression of the CIA "prestige" report is an exact parallel to the Labor Department's move. Whatever the value of such a report, and however genuine the entire issue of prestige, the people had a right to judge for themselves. And in the same vein of cynical contempt for the public's intelligence was this summer's trick of dating checks for items bought last fiscal year payable in this fiscal year. In effect, this rigged the figures to show an artificially balanced budget to the electorate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dishonesty in High Places | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...game was divided into halves, even more than usual. In the first quarter, completed four of five passes for yards. With Vasell taking well and fine protection, matters continued this vein in the second quarter...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Football Team Whips Columbia, 8-7, In Wacky, Error-Filled Contest | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...Herter went on to blast the Soviet attack on the U.N. as "an all-out attack, a real declaration of war against the structure, personnel and location of the United Nations," and later U.N. Ambassador James Wadsworth took the floor in the Assembly to rebut Khrushchev in the same vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battleground | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

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