Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOURNEY TO THE FAR AMAZON (353 pp.) - Alain Gheerbrant - Simon & Schusfer...
...VOYAGE OF THE HERETIQUE (214 pp.)-Alain Bombard-Simon & Schusfer...
...recital itself, said Biggs, was "a sort of compromise program: Handel, because after all he's buried here, Bach, then Daquin and Soler [both 18th century] for the traditionalists, Hindemith, Jehan Alain, a young French composer who was killed in World War II, finishing up with the Rondo from the Symphony in G by Leo Sowerby. Something for everyone, in fact." But not everyone in his audience approved. Playing with precise tranquillity, Biggs went through the program without ever playing full organ. The British, despite their reputation for restraint, like their organ music romantic and thunderous; Biggsie...
...winners are: Ralph Blum '54, Andrew T. Cole, Jr. '54, Alain L. Stern '54, Robert S. Platt, Jr. and Rodman A. Sharp from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Donald W. Dowd from the Law School...
Howard's Alain Locke, 66, a fussy little (5 ft. 4 in., 104 Ibs.) man with a shabby old briefcase, known to scholars all over the U.S. as the foremost Negro philosopher. At Harvard Locke studied under Royce, James and Santayana, went on to Oxford as the first Negro Rhodes scholar. Since 1912, his pince-nez quivering on his nose, he has prodded and cajoled two generations of students into raising the intellectual sights of their race: "A minority is only safe & sound in terms of its social intelligence . . . When you're up against the mass irrationality...