Word: byronism
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...investors see good reason to believe they will keep on coming. Says Duncan Richardson, a portfolio manager with Eaton Vance of Boston: "We're in a world of single-digit growth. If you find an investment north of 15% a year, you're probably looking to a technology company." Byron Wien, a managing director of Morgan Stanley, feels the technology group is in a long-term growth phase rather than the kind of boomlet experienced by energy and casino stocks in the late 1970s. Mutual-fund managers with big investments in technology insist the industry has grown...
...from the band. Batiste's performance capped off a week in residence at Harvard, the latest in the series of internationally-acclaimed jazz musicians who have worked with students through the Office for the Arts's "Learning from Performers" program. In recent years, such geniuses as Steve Lacy, Don Byron and Andrew Hill have cooperated with Harvard students in workshops and rehearsals for concert performances like that of last Friday night...
Despite a squeaky reed, Batiste lent an aura of majesty and lyricism to the concert with his finely crafted melodic lines and stately tone. It is interesting to compare the sound of 63-year old Batiste with that of last spring's guest, fellow clarinetist Don Byron, who is only in his 30's. While Batiste's sound is not physically as strong as Byron's, his clean, well-trained lines call attention to themselves nonetheless. In introducing the Thad Jones waltz "A Child Is Born," Batiste played into the guts of the opened grand piano and used the Steinway...
...Some things have to be sacrosanct," Byron said. "I can't believe they don't realize this. What kind of skewed value systems do they have...
Richard C. Byron '50 wrote to Rudenstine asking him not to change the great hall...