Word: bennington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final answer, in my opinion, is that le jazz hot and classical music are, like Bennington and Vassar students, quite incomparable. They are in a sense parts of two separate and distinct worlds. They appeal to, or are expressions or, entirely different levels of emotion. They involve a clear dichotomy of human aesthetic response. People who have developed a sense sympathetic or responsive to classical music, and have heard little or no jazz, will argue that a swing classic is meaningless, superficial, or psycho-pathetic, depending usually on the degree to which it is hot. Such a comment...
Last year an exhaustive poll of the Senior class taken for the Senior Album revealed, among other useless information, that the class of 1940 rated girls' colleges in the following order of popularity: Radcliffe, Welleslcy, Smith, Vassar, Bennington...
...repute, Welleslcy girls spend all their time looking for husbands, but you can have fun with them just the same. According to current folklore, Wellesley girls average prettier but dumber than Radeliffeites. Smith is ditto, but more fun to spend a week-end at. The same goes for Vassar. Bennington combines plenty of art, girls in slacks, lots of liquor, and absolutely no rules--Benningtonties can and do stay out all night. These last three colleges are out of the question unless you own or can borrow...
Last week hundreds of these dancing intellectuals gathered in Bennington, Vt. to attend the annual Bennington Festival, No. 1 U. S. summer dance event. Climax of the festival was a brand-new Graham ballet, Letter to the World, danced by 16 Grahamites. For it U. S. Composer Hunter Johnson had written a substantial, lengthy musical score; U. S. Scenic Designer Arch Lauterer had built an unprecedented stage load of secret panels, revolving doors and trick modernistic lighting effects. The ballet's subject: Poet Emily Dickinson, the New England spinster who never went out of her Amherst, Mass, house...
Julius A. Abels, of Brooklyn, N. Y., C. C. N. Y. '34; Roland B. Brandis, Jr., of Greensboro, N. C., Richmond '37; Ernest R. Dalton, of Hopedale, Bowdoin '37; Stephen Enke, of Cambridge, Stanford '36; Edgar J. Kemler, of Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins '37; Robert J. M. Matteson, of Bennington, Va., Middlebury '38; Paul F. McGuire, of Wauwatosa, Wis., Wisconsin '37; Hugh L. Stewart, of Arlington, Va., Kansas State '31; James E. Wood, of Washington, D. C., College of the Pacific '29; Burton O. Young, of Arlington, Va., Oberlin...