Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tulle veil, the bride swept down the stair case into the East Room of the White House. She moved in metronomic precision on the arm of her father, the 36th President of the United States, beneath the stern, portraited gaze of four predecessors (none a Democrat). The 32-man chamber orchestra...
When McGeorge Bundy left Washington last year to become head of the Ford Foundation, Lyndon Johnson lost a compelling voice for his policies of broadened foreign trade, a more realistic international monetary system, and wider, more willing U.S. investment abroad. Last week, addressing the International Chamber of Commerce in Manhattan, Bundy raised that voice again, arguing "The Case for Self-Confident Generosity in Trade, Money and Management." Excerpts...
...list is admirable in its division of attention between the gurus of the contemporary styles and their still-emerging disciples. It includes such cornerstone composers as the French mystic Olivier Messiaen and American Serialist Statesman Milton Babbitt, plus a smattering of tiny, wispy recent Stravinsky pieces, as well as chamber works by Aaron Copland, some recently discovered early pieces by Anton Webern, performed by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...weekly segment rooting out covert discrimination in the area. And, for a change of pace, there is pro basketball, a talk show with Author Kenneth Rexroth, as well as William Buckley's Firing Line, a "how-to" series on such subjects as skin diving and sewing, live chamber concerts, and an engrossing experimental show that examines far-out topics-for example, the people who advertise for sex partners in the underground weeklies. That program is called Nothing Goes Over the Devil's Back That Don't Buckle Under His Belly...
Friday night, the Band gave the first in a projected series of free concerts in Sanders Theater. I generally find the sound of a concert band a refreshing change from the usual orchestral or chamber music fare, but this time I'm afraid the Band was not up to snuff. Only a week beyond the end of the football season and undoubtedly depressed by the sight of a bare hundred people scattered sparsely through Sanders Theatre, the Band sounded dispirited and underrehearsed. Intonation throughout the concert was of the sickly sort one expects from a band but which...