Word: aaron
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...still lacked practical musical experience, so Glass set out for New York City and the Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 1962. Dissatisfied with his technique, he headed for Paris a couple of years later to study with Nadia Boulanger, the renowned pedagogue who had taught Aaron Copland and ; Virgil Thomson. "Boulanger believed that the training we got in America was simply not thorough enough," says Glass. "She was convinced that at age 27 I had to redo completely my musical education." As the oldest member of the Boulangerie, he studied counterpoint six to eight hours...
...line retailer was founded in 1872 in Chicago by Aaron Montgomery Ward, a salesman who presciently anticipated the potential in mail-order sales to farmers. Later that year he published the first comprehensive general- merchandise catalog, 22 years before Richard Sears did. It was one of the last times Montgomery Ward was ahead of Sears...
...consequently-or coincidentally-continued his initially strong performance into the finals, where he lost to to Aaron Krickstein, who is now ranked 10th in the world...
...research committee is prostituting the surplus-dog situation," said Aaron Medlock, a member of the New England Anti Vivisection Society, a group of citizens concerned with animal rights...
...Silverman, "the man with the golden gut," ABC began turning out a rapid parade of hits. Many of them were raucous, youth-oriented comedies (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley); others exploited buxom blonds and sexual humor ( (Three's Company, Charlie's Angels); still others were sentimental puffballs from Producer Aaron Spelling (Love Boat, Fantasy Island). In the 1974-75 season, ABC was last in the ratings at 16.6, more than 3 points behind second-place NBC. Within two years it boasted seven of TV's ten top- rated shows and had climbed to first place with a whopping 21.6 rating. With...