Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "Patriot of the press, courageous champion of civil rights, prophet of the new South, voice of our new republic, with liberty and justice for all." Aaron Copland, composer Mus.D...
...their countenances, Congressmen and grim pedagogues have proposed a "crash program" for science in the secondary schools. But the problem is not only science; a New Republic feature article disclosed that three quarters of the students in the South--on into their freshman classes at college--couldn't identify Aaron Burr, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther, or Aristotle ("one of Christ's disciples," wrote a college freshman). Parents, employers, and college instuctors are discovering that great percentages of youth can't spell properly, read quickly, write legibly, or express themselves comprehensibly...
...white ties and tails, the visitors played "Incandescently," reported New York Times Critic Howard Taubman. The first-night audience stopped applauding only so that the orchestra could play another selection: an intense Strauss Don Juan, a powerful Beethoven Seventh Symphony, a rare performance in Russia of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Quiet City. And they went wild after the orchestra's richly sonorous playing of Mussorgsky-Ravel's Pictures from an Exhibition...
Back across the Atlantic once more, Mr. Eyre entered his sophomore year and became increasingly interested in the excellence of the theatre created by such well-remembered artists as Stephen Aaron, John Ratte, Colgate Salisbury, John Poppy and Harold Scott. One day in conversation Scott mentioned he would like to put on Deathwatch if he only had some money. "I took him up on it--as a joke...no, as a bet. It was great fun, and it made money...
...think there is enough respect today for those Aaron-Ratte-Poppy days. They were professionals who knew what they were doing, not merely people who think they know...