Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to need a written excuse from a certified doctor to go to a rock concert in Boston this week...
...flying back to wherever you live this week instead of going to a rock concert, you're a smart boy. Boston is Deadsville, USA this weekend. "And God said let there be boredom and there was Boston this weekend...
Finally, in 1974 he broke his silence with two works. Baroque Concert, a novella, is a fantasia about music and travel in the 18th century. Reasons of State, now translated into English, is the epic story, executed in comic opera style, of the downfall of the dictator of an imaginary Caribbean nation around the time of the First World War. An enlightened despot who prefers vacationing in Paris to tyrannizing his country, the unnamed Head of State returns to suppress revolts by trusted generals, crush his civilian opposition, and reflect the tedium...
...delight in line continued. But after World War II, Aalto abandoned crisp functionalism-"inhuman dandy-purism," he called it. His freestanding works became more complicated and took on steadily more mysterious, evocative forms (TIME, Aug. 25). His grand public structures-most notably Finlandia House, Helsinki's conference and concert center-stir an exhilarating sense of place and occasion. Aalto's town halls, designed for Seinäjoki, Säynätsalo and other small Finnish cities, use light and space to create a kind of civic intimacy. No concept was too large for his attention (he laid...
When Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, tried to quiet the cheering crowd so that a Glee Club concert could begin at nearby Holden Chapel, his pleas were drowned out by a noisy South Boston rooting section on the fourth floor fire escape, dressed in tuxedos, the Glee Club members lined up along the third base, line to join in the cheering, but they were quickly disappointed when Cordova grounded out to kill the rally...