Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ringers were generous enough to perform seven, the last in response to demands for an encore telephoned in during the intermission. It is hard to choose a favorite from among these miniature masterpieces, mainly because they are somewhat difficult to tell apart; the finest from an artistic point of view is the one entitled "Little Ivan sat in a Divan," which Tchaikowsky incorporated into the last movement of his Fourth Symphony...
...three junior representatives are Edward L. Croman '60, of Leverett House and Newark, New Jersey; Theodore R. Mamor '60, of Eliot House and Mountain View, California; and Harvey L. Ozer '60, of Dudley House and Dorchester...
...surprising thing about the Administration's budget is not that it is not realistic in view of this year's $12 billion deficit, but that in its attempts to cut down expenditures, it has singled out the sectors of the economy closest to home. For instance, with a tight-purse policy the President believes he can save $600 million in housing expeditures, $400 million in agricultural expenditures, and $400 million by ending federal payments to State unemployment compensation programs (this despite the 4 million still unemployed...
...Dudley cooperative, each student would contribute two or three hours a week to the "cleaning, maintenance and improvement" of his House. He would also undertake an assignment of about twelve hours of "kitchen duty" each six weeks. "This seems a modest demand in view of the very low rent," Leighton commented...
...wrote his history in the shadow of-and partly inside-Buckingham Palace. An acre of Fabergé eggshells beset the path of the royal (and official) biographer, but Wheeler-Bennett has manfully covered the field to give a picture of a king and a king's-eye view of his times. Apart from inside stuff such as bits of George's conversations with F.D.R. at Hyde Park (where the lordly Roosevelt called him "young man"), the book offers a highly explicit picture of the functions and limitations of the British monarchy...