Word: benjamin
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...Composer Michael Tippett turned 60 last month, orchestras all over Britain gave him the best gift of all: they performed his works. The tribute has since become something of a surprise party-for critics and audiences. For while Tippett ranks second only to his friend Benjamin Britten as England's most notable living composer, his music has not been widely played hitherto, chiefly because its polyphonic complexities and juggled rhythmic patterns scare off most performers. Now, thanks to the birthday boom, performances of Tippett's music are finally winning the popular recognition that conservative Britons have long denied...
...Crimson Key Society announced the election of new officers for 1965 last night. They are: William G. Lee '66, president: Charles E. Flenning '66, vice-president; Dudley H. Ladd '66 secretary; Benjamin M. Friedman '66, treasurer; Paul N. Fredlund '66, Orientation Committee chairman; R. Wald Shelton Jr. '67, schools chairman: Vanghn C. Williams '66, guides chairman; and Geoffrey B. Shields '67, athletic chairman...
Princeton's strongest asset is its hottom four players, who out-experience Crimson opponents Dave Benjamin, Todd Wilkinson, Steve Simpson, and Craig Stapleton...
...World, the Met has just a few things begging to find wall space there. Among its U.S. painting treasures, rarely seen together for lack of gallery space, are 37 Sargents, 22 Gilbert Stuarts, 15 Homers, eleven Copleys, eight Cassatts, seven paintings each by Eakins, Childe Hassam, Ryder, Benjamin West and Whistler, six each by Thomas Cole, Arthur Dove and the Peale brothers, five each by George Bellows, Albert Bierstadt and John Sloan...
Lost Insight. The results of this impassioned pursuit of anarchy are catastrophic for both Tarl and the novel. In her determination to keep her son Benjamin out of school, she embarks on two frantic years of hysterical defiance and evasion, finally breaks with her shadowy husband and goes to jail. She is believable at first because she is so remarkably irritating, later because her repetitious moralizing becomes so remarkably dull. She wears platitudes the way other women wear perfume, and the fact that many of them are fresh, new platitudes does not keep them from becoming stale...