Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Braves are weaker in one respect, with Hank Aaron recuperating from a shoulder operation and potentially useless for at least part of the season...
Last year the Braves had power; five of their players slugged 20 or more home runs. The outfield of Aaron (.328), Rico Carty (.320), and Lee Maye (.304) is unquestionably the best in a league full of good ones, Dennis Menke came through as a rookie infielder, and Joe Torre developed into a fine catcher while hitting...
Harvard has run through Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, and the late Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings. Wesleyan's Center for Advanced Studies has attracted Author Paul Horgan. Some artists become permanent faculty fixtures, such as Yale's Novelist Robert Penn Warren and Minnesota's Poet Allen Tate. Saul Bellow, temporary writer in residence at Chicago, has fit so unobtrusively into the faculty that Coed Barbara Samuels observes: "For us he's the teacher, not the great novelist...
...value there is to just rubbing shoulders with great names," says Chicago English Chairman Gwin J. Kolb. Ivy League and West Coast schools tend to use the artist in informal seminars, then let him work while students kibitz or wait to nail him at coffee breaks. At Wisconsin, Painter Aaron Bohrod avoids talks, just keeps his studio open. "Fascinating verbalists may not lead you to the understanding that a shrug of the shoulders can," he says. Many colleges use performing artists primarily to direct student productions in drama, music, the dance...
...Aaron Copland will spend three weeks at Harvard this spring while he makes a television series on "Music in the '20's" for WGBH, the Boston educational television station...