Word: 20th
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Starting off the concert was a playful "Musical Birthday Card" by local composer Tom Flaherty in celebration of Pro Arte's 20th anniversary season. Though it did not have a large dynamic or mood range, the Flaherty piece was graceful, lyric, and lilting; and the orchestra man- aged its complex rhythms and harmonies masterfully...
...main intellectual pursuit was the study of 20th century American culture, art and literature. Among numerous teaching positions, she was an art history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and a historian at the National Portrait Gallery...
...Drug Administration from 1946 to 1960. Checchi says he has been thinking of running for office ever since age 12. "I was raised in a household where public service was valued," he says, recalling vividly that "[President] Kennedy died when I was 15. Bobby Kennedy died on my 20th birthday." Says author Scott Turow, Checchi's undergraduate roommate at Amherst College: "Al can rub people the wrong way, but he's always had a sense of personal destiny. He's always wanted to do good. He's a great idealist...
...Aussie band later opted for INXS--much hipper and better suited to Hutchence's hard-driving, sinewy appeal. The hit What You Need was topped by the bravura album Kick in 1987. Hutchence dabbled in film but stayed loyal to the band, which had been preparing for its 20th anniversary tour...
Second, far from keeping Kissinger's visit "secret," the Nieman Foundation informed its 600 alumni by form letter on July 20th that he would be one of our speakers during the reunion weekend. That The Crimson only unearthed this fact by October 7th, the day before his talk, is understandably galling to a usually alert news apparatus. But don't, please, fret about this lapse; since the reunion, like most, was oversubscribed and open only to reunioners who had paid the registration fee, we didn't try to publicize any aspect...