Word: algonquin
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...housing in its location behind the spot where Matthews Hall stands today, that those first five students became acquainted with the missionary society's true goal: the conversion of Native American Indians to Christianity. The Indian College housed a printing press that furnished the first Christian texts translated into Algonquin, with much of the translation done by the Native American students themselves...
...early '90s she made two slow-selling albums. But buoyed by the buzz from her live shows, her newest album, Only for You--a set of her Cole interpretations--has leaped into the Top 10 on the jazz charts. Next month she performs at New York City's Algonquin Hotel, the Carnegie Hall of jazz lounges. Krall is on her way to proving, as Benny Carter said in affirming the Carnegie Hall audience's praise that night, that no one will forget that "she can play...
...wide variety of magazines as well as to advance Time Inc.'s growing interest in television. A man of many interests, Gaines is an accomplished classical pianist, the father of three (soon to be four) children, the author of one book (Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table) and the editor of another (The Lives of the Piano...
...addition to serving as a Harvard Overseer from 1642 to 1685, he also translated the Bible into the Algonquin dialect and served as a pastor of the First Church in Roxbury for 60 years...
...times Alan Rudolph, the director (and co-writer) of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, seems to have a larger purpose, which is to challenge the supposed glamour of the bright, bibulous young writers who drew themselves up to the round table at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s. Yet Rudolph remains of two minds about his subjects. He wants them to charm us, but he also wants to show how their infinite distractability stunted their lives and careers. His ambivalence creates not an intriguing thematic tension but merely confusion...