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...processional based on Heinrich Isaac's La Mi La Sol exhibited the lavish potentialities of cornetto, sackbut and shawm. The intricate syncopation of this piece is akin to the spirit of many of Gabrielli's horn canzone...
...common goal. "This objective should be pursued as far as possible within the United Nations. In large measure, however, it must be pressed outside the U.N." With hearty approval, Fulbright cites Sir Anthony Eden's recent proposal that the Atlantic communities form a "political general staff," akin to the Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II, to meet today's monolithic Communist threat. But Fulbright would carry the idea a step further: for the kernel of his plan, he turns to 19th century history and the remarkable alliance of Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia-and later, defeated France...
...Legal. Without a unity of arms to enforce their will, Denys and his allies began to lose control. With Ku-bitschek's backing, Congress went into special session to discuss a constitutional amendment to remold the government from a U.S. presidential system into a parliamentary pattern akin to West Germany's, with a president of weak powers (Goulart) and a strong Premier to be appointed by Congress...
...novelist. Unlike Faulkner and Fitzgerald, Hemingway rarely dealt with the American scene after his early Nick Adams stories of hunting and fishing in the West. Internationally, Hemingway belonged with Eliot, Yeats and Joyce as one of the prime shapers of modern literature, but temperamentally he was more akin to that roving intellectual foreign legion of Malraux, Camus and Koestler, who sent back communiques from all the battlefronts of the 2Oth century consciousness and conscience...
...organizations is more evident in their absence than their presence. When because of the rigors of examination period the Band almost withdrew from the Memorial Day parade, some city officials felt slighted. Luckily, the Band played. Although no slight is involved, many Cambridge residents also notice when, for reasons akin to exams, the CRIMSON fails to appear every morning...