Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brass Tacks & Corn Pone. Thailand posed especially delicate problems for Johnson. One of the strongest anti-Communist nations in Southeast Asia, Thailand was fast losing its faith in the U.S. after the debacle in neighboring Laos. Johnson set the mood for his reassuring talks with Sarit by stopping off at Bangkok's SEATO headquarters building to deliver a blunt statement. "It is sometimes difficult to understand how a man-or a nation-can treasure liberty for himself," said Johnson, his voice sharpening as he spoke, "and be totally unconcerned for it when it involves other people...
...three sessions together, Johnson and Sarit got down to brass tacks. At one point, the Vice President bemused the Premier by making a solid point with some corn-pone rhetoric: "My daddy taught me back in Texas what to do when you see a snake. We take a hoe off the wall and get him: Now, there are lots of snakes around here. We have our hands on the hoe handle. Are you going to grab the handle with us so we can get those snakes together...
...become a standard medium in this century. Its instruments offer a limited range of tone color, but the fullness and buoyancy of their sounds are ideal materials for manipulating sonority. The most successful piece in this regard was Howard Hanson's Chorale and Alleluia. Its combinations of woodwinds and brass were quite exhilarating, and all the more so because James A. Walker, the band's new conductor, shrewdly separated parts of each choir at various points on the stage. As throughout the evening, entrances were not uniformly clean, but the dissonant sonorities were well executed...
Show business's "star-spangled octopus," the Music Corp. of America, was up in alms. After the talent agency's top brass decided to honor Board Chairman Jules Caesar Stem's 65th birthday with a donation to his favorite charity -Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.-ex-Ophthalmologist Stein promised to "match anything raised up to a million." Last week 19 of his openhanded executives ponied up an even million and forced him to fill out the $2,000,000 parlay. Said part-time Philanthropist Stein: "I guess they've done pretty well here, after...
...abolition of Greek and Latin entrance requirements, the establishment of Radcliffe and Social Relations--these were received with stunned but obedient submission. Now the time for silence is past; the time has come to speak out, for Harvard's Ages of Gold and Silver are forever gone, and usurping Brass anticks in its vulgar triumph...