Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armed forces and by General Cemal Gursel's junta, suffered a setback while the Justice Party, drawing supporters of executed Premier Adnan Menderes, showed considerable strength. In the wake of these results, as the parties maneuvered to form a new government, the country's top military brass* gathered ominously in Ankara. Out to the politicians went an invitation as crisp as a parade-ground command: form a coalition government of all major parties, with Gursel as President, or face a military takeover...
...used to be that most high schools and colleges fielded brass bands to pep up the Saturday-afternoon football game. In the '20s, somebody dreamed up the idea of leading off the band with a female drum major, and the drum majorette was born. Soon there were teams of majorettes with high hats, tight pants, and chin-cracking dimpled knees. Today the drill teams are almost more active-in regional and national competitions, before TV cameras, on the road-than the school footballers they complement. Their marching and twirling routines are in finitely more intricate than football plays, their...
Although Mayor Edward A. Crane '33 informed him of Pusey's trip to the Orient, Vellucci continued to demand "the top brass." "A university like Harvard must have a vice-President," he declared...
Perhaps, too, of course, Mr. Andrew Schenck, the Bach Society's new conductor, might have done something to enliven the evening. Mr. Schenck is blessed with one of the most competent small (and largely collegiate) orchestras in the country--it is hampered neither by ghostly strings nor awkward brass--but like Haydn and his themes, he often seems unable to decide what he wants to do with his musicians...
...white and gold (it had been what decorators politely call an "Eisenhower pink"), the University has set little colored tiles into the gray walls of the new Health Center, and even Life magazine looks different, but the Brattle Theatre, whatever its program, still plays its one mournful record of brass canzone, of all things, by Gabrielli, of all people...