Word: berge
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Esoteric works, Prague linguistics, the letters of Alban Berg, and forgotten masterpieces like Baudelaire's Pauvre Belgique are elevated to the level on indispensable texts; like letters discovered several decades after their author's death, which then prompt a revision of his life and work these documents compel the reader to reevaluate his library and his notebook, those two vessels of humane learning. In time, he realizes that what he has collected represents no more than a mere portion of what there is, and resolves to devote his labors to the subjective, to whatever mirrors and enhances his own suspicions...
...Crimson swept to victory in the pole vault, Both Jim Kleiger and Blayne Heckel vaulted 15 ft., but Kleiger took first on the basis of fewer misers. Don Berg finished third with...
Pole vaulters Jim Kleiger and sophomore Blaine Heckel and Don Berg provide the Crimson with a potent attack, while the triple jump team of Kevin Benjamin. Howie Corwin and Sharpe is one of the strongest in the Ivies...
...Alban Berg could not find an opera house willing to produce Wozzeck. On Hermann Scherchen's suggestion, Berg produced a three-movement suite about Wozzeck's mistress, Marie. From 1924 (the first performance date) to the present, the opera has remained Berg's most popular work all because of the initial spark provided by the suite. The public must have acted on faith to hail Wozzeck on the strength of the suite excerpts: they contain only a fraction of the tragedy and sarcasm that pervades the opera. The last suite movement in particular loses nearly all its power...
Undaunted by the prospect of playing music so difficult to present successfully, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra gave a program principally of Britten, Berg, and Ravel. All three pieces employed a soprano soloist, a role Phyllis Curtin fulfilled with ability equal to any singer here in recent memory. All the mechanics of sound production were displayed with ease uncommon to the student efforts so familiar in Cambridge. Even Curtin's stage presence was a model of professionalism...