Word: cantors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cantor said the highlight of his Harvard career has been working with Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, whom he called a "tremendous leader...
Daniel D. Cantor, who has been the University's top gun in personnel for 10 years, said yesterday that he will continue to work for Harvard part-time after leaving the directorship at the end of the academic year...
...Pope is known to have visited a Jewish house of worship. Initiated by a personal request from the Pontiff, the carefully planned event included mutual declarations of respect by the Pope (who twice used Hebrew phrases) and the Chief Rabbi, Bible readings, hymns and the rendition by a cantor and choir of Ani Ma'amin, a traditional profession of faith sung by Jews as they were led to the gas chambers. Because of the congregation's Orthodox Jewish sensibilities, there was no joint worship...
...grown in stature. It has even gone into space aboard Voyager 1 and 2 as an example of the best that human culture has to offer. Yet the contemporary image of Bach is, in its own way, as myopic as that of previous eras. We tend to perceive the cantor of St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig as, above all, an unsmiling, devout Lutheran, who erected cathedrals in sound dedicated to the glory of God. Bach's music, we think, is great because it is good for us. But to consider Bach only as a kind of musical chaplain takes...
Angry stockholder meetings are a long way from Icahn's early life as the son of a synagogue cantor in New York City. After studying philosophy at Princeton, the future raider spent two years in medical school, but quit when he realized that he was not enjoying the work--and becoming a bit of a hypochondriac to boot. After a stint in the Army at Fort Sam Houston, he used a few thousand dollars won in barracks poker games to get started on Wall Street. He made $50,000 in the bull market of 1961, then lost it just...