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Still, there is a problem with the music itself. Like some other composers of his generation, Bernstein no longer fully trusts his basically conservative musical convictions. The eclectic A Quiet Place is fundamentally tonal, but its melodies only infrequently blossom, as if Bernstein were inhibited by 30 years of modernism from writing the kind of straightforward, expressive music that obviously agrees with him. Instead, he has compromised with a bloated, percussive score that, stripped of its bluster and its "commitment," is too often little more than a plaintive bleat. Only in the orchestral interludes, affecting, purely musical ruminations that speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trouble in Houston for Lenny | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

Denis might also have been surprised to see his wife's career blossom just as his was ending. Born in London in 1915, he was sent to Mill Hill, a second-drawer boarding school, then went on to join the Royal Artillery. By the end of World War II, he had risen to the rank of major. There was also a brief marriage and a divorce. Denis' grandfather in Kent had discovered an effective sheep-dip and founded a company, Atlas Preservatives, to market it. After the war, Denis went to work for the firm, which became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Gentleman | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...This is something that will blossom." John Chittick, an HCSL member and president of the Education School's Student Association Cabinet said yesterday, adding. "The last time [this type of protest] was done by a large majority of students was during the Vietnam...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Students to Wear Armbands In Graduation Weapons Protest | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...couple's "our song" presupposes an enduring and developing relationship of which the melody will be the theme. Every year on their anniversary, House Speaker Tip O'Neill sings I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time to his wife of 41 years, Mildred Anne. It is more difficult to develop a privately meaningful song if you plan to part company in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: They're Playing Ur-Song | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

Sweeney started the BC avalanche carly in the game, taking a pass from Blossom the play was nearly a mirror image of the game tying goal versus the Crimson and beating Husky netminder Mark Davidner for a 1-0 lead...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Harvard Last in Beanpot; Eagles Take Title | 2/15/1983 | See Source »

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