Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more widely popular following than any other classical instrumentalist in history. At a time when artists 25 years his junior are gearing down for retirement, he is shifting into overdrive. This season he will perform virtually every third day in concert halls from Ithaca to Istanbul. The real wonder is not that he is still going so strong, but that he is playing better than ever...
...result, the Boston Globe reported the next morning that nine (or ten, depending on how you count) laboratories would be "up-rooted." The M.I.T. officials also constantly emphasized the possible disruption to experiments from vibrations, and yet their discussion was almost totally couched in generalities. One is left to wonder how serious the threat is--how many experiments will be significantly altered or thereatend--or whether M.I.T. was just waving a red flag...
...trade as "costume plays," were common currency before the war, and even immediately after. (Ingrid Bergman played Joan of Lorraine in the late forties.) Preston is quite right in his statement that, "It's the kind of thing Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne used to do," but I wonder if it's fair to remember that magnificent team for the cheapest of their quasi-historical vehicles. In better moments they could be found performing the works of Sherwood, Coward, Molnar, and Shaw...
Baseball did it. So did pro football and pro basketball. The wonder is that it took hockey so long. In comparative terms, hockey has long been the most popular and profitable of all pro sports...
...customs, the police and the military. He may even take on the faction-ridden, absentee-prone Parliament itself, whose members spend much of their time lobbying to place themselves or friends in key civil service slots. Remarked one member of Parliament last week, more (at this stage) in wonder than in rage: "The tame man we elected has turned into a tiger...