Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlie" Ives. The correctness of that judgment again became clear last week at Bennington, Vt, where Ruggles' friends, colleagues and neighbors staged a concert of his complete works. There were a song cycle, Vox damans in Deserto, a piano suite called Evocations and a short composition for muted brass called Angels. Most impressive was the granite-hewn intensity of his orchestral miniatures, Men and Mountains, Portals and Organum. His most ambitious work, the tone poem Sun Treader glinted with an ice-age grandeur, evoking craggy ranges and northern lights...
...story of Fanny Brice is the fairytale dream of an unprepossessing kid who rose from the ghetto to the Follies on a powerful amalgam of brass and tal ent. Barbra's marked resemblance to Fanny is more than nasal. She is the flip side of Cinderella-the homely gir who made it. Conceivably, it could happen to every unendowed citizen in America. For her fans, that is enough...
...Army, Navy and Air Force reservists were called to active duty last January, after North Korea seized U.S.S. Pueblo, their ranks included some professional attorneys. And as the Pueblo crisis dwindled, the reservists' discontent rose. After the Pentagon began shipping some of them off to Viet Nam, the brass was peppered with a rapid fire of writs from soldiers who would rather sue than fight...
...Brass Plate. For his efforts, Salinger gets a hefty salary plus stock options. One of his frequent tasks, Salinger concedes, is helping to dispel investor worries about GRAMCO's Nassau base. Lax laws, loosely enforced, have given the Bahamas a reputation as a haven for promoters of dubious activities...
While all too many Nassau-based firms consist chiefly of a brass plate on a lawyer's door and someone to answer the mail, GRAMCO's 100 Nassau staffers fill three floors in two office buildings. To make sure that every penny of income and outgo is handled meticulously, GRAMCO has turned the routine operation of the fund over to the prestigious Trust Corp. of the Bahamas, which is jointly owned by such institutions as Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the Royal Bank of Canada and London's Westminster Bank...