Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sextet navigated Gesualdo's twisting harmonies with usually precise intonation. The pitch problems that did crop up from time to time were invariably failures of individual singers to sustain difficult lines. Unfortunately, the sacred motets that opened the program suffered from exactly this type of difficulty, as did William Byrd's Mass for five voices. With only a single voice for each elaborate contrapuntal line, I Dilettanti were simply unable to maintain the warm blended tone they brought to the simpler, chordal passages...
Other Senators spoke in a similarly ominous vein. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd-a conservative whom Nixon once considered for a Supreme Court vacancy and who is highly regarded by the Southern Senators Nixon is most ardently courting -charged that the President was trying "to mislead the people and to sabotage the legitimate and constitutional impeachment inquiry." Republican Senator Howard Baker, a member of the Senate Watergate committee, declared that the "legalisms and narrow issues" adopted by Nixon had hurt rather than helped his survival chances and that he must surrender all "relevant" evidence to the Rodino...
...coauthor, claims that it is "one of the historic turning points in the evolution of our institutions." The bill has been hailed by many liberal Senators, notably Maine's Edmund Muskie and California's Alan Cranston, as well as by such conservatives as Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. and Tennessee's William Brock...
...that's all in the past. "I'm looking forward to next season," Roth said yesterday, "much more than I was last season." The Crimson icemen will be graduating only four seniors, Goodenow, All-Ivy defenseman Levy Byrd, Noonan and Dave Hands...
...Byrd is not flashy. He's no Bobby Orr by any means, but his steady play the second half of the year has earned him honors as an All-Ivy first team defenseman...