Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heartz' harpsichord playing had some rhythmic tentativeness and wrong notes, but was adequate on the whole. As soloist he played Byrd's showy Praeludium and jaunty variations on the folk tune The Carman's Whistle. But most intriguing was Hugh Aston's Hornepype, taken from the earliest source of English harpsichord music; this too was a set of variations--not on a tune, but rather on a repeated bass pattern. It is striking for its period in its unusual length, and in the fact that it has an ever-increasing intensity whereas most Renaissance pieces preserve their initial level throughout...
Against Walter George's oratory, his old friend, Virginia's Harry Byrd, presented statistical arguments; e.g., the new disability benefits would cost $850 million the first year. But the Senate had in mind another set of statistics: the votes of 250,000 disabled persons and 800,000 women (to say nothing of wage-earning relatives) who would benefit by the new program. The Senate approved the Democratic amendments for the disabled (47 to 45) and for the ladies (86 to 7). Final vote on the bill: 90 to 0. Confronted by such unanimity, President Eisenhower would think twice...
...concert will include works by Handel, Rameau, Isaac, Ortiz, and Byrd. Some of the selections to be played are Praeludium, Si dormiero, Troisieme concert en trio, and Recercada sobre...
Virginia (32): At the urging of Senator Harry Byrd, probably a unit vote for Lyndon Johnson on early balloting, then a switch to the leading candidate whose civil-rights stand seems least obnoxious...
...roaring '203 Roosevelt Field, only 20 miles from Manhattan's Times Square, was America's "Cradle of Aviation." There one rainy dawn in May, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off for Paris; within the next 40 days Clarence Chamberlin set out for Berlin and Richard Evelyn Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared...