Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy lyrical style which has kept it alive in repertory as an authentic domestic classic. For his fourth opera, premiered last week at the legend-laden Opera House in Central City, Colo., Composer Moore once again mined some rich native lore: the story of Colorado Silver Millionaire Horace Austin Warner ("HAW") Tabor and his blonde bride from Wisconsin, Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby") Doe. The opera's title: The Ballad of Baby...
...London. Ont. Canadian Physicist Austin D. Misener told a U.N. youth seminar: there are two kinds of forces in the modern world−those that divide people and those that unite them. Science, he said, unites: the churches divide. He was not speaking of Christianity, he added "but of the way churches operate, tending to separate nations, people and races...
...longtime friend of the candidate: "John Bell is not personally without guilt in connection [with] profits from the sale of state lands to veterans . . . What he did, in my opinion, was at least morally wrong . . . It is common practice for at least 75% of all those representing us in Austin and in Washington to get their fingers into public appropriations or to be remembered for their legislative efforts with legal fees and retainers ... Unfortunately for Congressman Bell, the legal fee payments in the veterans' land deal came to light...
...Convicted in 1898 of embezzling funds from a bank in Austin, Texas, William Sydney Porter, then 35, was sentenced to five years in prison; good behavior reduced the term to three years and three months, most of which Porter served in the pharmacy. In that time, he developed the talent that produced the works of O. Henry...
...John Austin, whose music is familiar to Harvard audiences, was represented by two sets of pieces: Five Settings of a Locrian chorale, for piano, and Four Modal Canons, for two violins and viola. The first group is not very good; the second, much better. Austin's piano music is an agglomeration of modal progressions, cast in big thick chords insensitively connected. There is nothing particularly cerebral in his style. Little is said. The same applies to the Canons. There-part canon at the unison or octave is difficult to write, since the harmonies during the imitations are somewhat limited...