Word: aarons
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This new musical language is marvelous for the expression of horror, desolation, despair, and other standard 20th-century emotions. It is less appropriate for pastoral scenes or nostalgic longing. For the expression of these states, a more conservative, traditional idiom is needed, and Aaron Copland, whose Appalachian Spring was the second work of the concert, is one of the century's great conservatives. Appalachian Spring uses an intentionally accesible idiom which relies on triads and simple melodies mostly drawn from folk-songs to evoke a "pioneer celebration of Spring...
...tune of the bicentennial, the orchestra will open with a performance of Appalachian Spring, a suite from the Pulitzer prize-winning ballet by prominent American composer Aaron Copland. The ballet is a charming work which captures all of the joyful and apprehensive emotions of a young pioneer farmer and his bride-to-be in the Pennsylvania hills during the early part of the last century. The flavor of the mountain folk tradition is so pungent that one is nearly drawn to begin foot-stomping and hand-clapping...
...Aaron Liminick, dean of Princeton's faculty, said he "hasn't heard of any general faculty reaction" either...
Lynn is compared to DiMaggio and Williams; Rice to Henry Aaron if anybody, partly because Willie Mays wouldn't do (Rice has no connotations, yet, as a fielder), mostly because whites are always compared to whites and blacks to blacks. There really are similarities between Lynn and DiMaggio--you can feel it--but Rice and Aaron have only one similarity, and one which has little to do with baseball...
...What if Aaron Burr had been a bad shot? What if Lincoln had not attended Our American Cousin? Such questions, history's most tantalizing and ironic, are also its most academic and trivial−except in some extraordinary instances. One such instance is now coming to light. The FBI is investigating the previously unrevealed fact that a few days before President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald dropped in at the bureau's Dallas office to deliver a threatening note. Not only did the Dallas FBI fail to put Oswald under surveillance...