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Word: concertizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day yet another bomb went off, this time at a bandstand in Brussels, where a British military band was to give a concert as part of the Belgian capital's millennium celebrations. The I.R.A. is suspected of having planted it. The bomb injured four band members and twelve spectators; no one was killed. Intelligence experts have believed for some time that Irish terrorists have a base in Europe, whose operatives were responsible for the gunning down last March of the British Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, and possibly the car bombing from which outgoing NATO Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Nation Mourns Its Loss | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...praise of himself, Diaghilev boomed: "Society will have to recognize that my experiments, which appear dangerous today, become indispensable tomorrow." He was right. He discovered Stravinsky at a concert in St. Petersburg and Picasso in a shabby studio in Montmartre. In Parade, first performed in 1917, he juxtaposed cubist costumes with the sharp-edged music of Satie and a Cocteau libretto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Genghis Khan of Ballet | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...player's head, a bald mass, gleams in the light. His hands, swollen from arthritis, hardened by decades of immersion in darkroom chemicals, skitter over the keys, assaulting the same phrase again and again. "Damn," he says, "I've lost it." But not altogether. Once you have practiced to concert discipline, even 50 years ago, the traces still show. "There used to be a relationship between my piano and my photography," says Ansel Adams. "I guess it's one-sided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Yosemite | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...Michigan N.A.A.C.P. plan to call on school superintendents to get them moving, and Jefferson will meet with Detroit high school principals to urge each of them to deputize a registrar to keep track of the students as they reach voting age. Madison envisions a voter registration rock concert held in Motown. Admission: one voter registration card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Senior Voters | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...president of the band, star soprano for the chorus, leading chamber music player and organizer of the jazz band in high school, huh? Join the club--everyone else was, too. During Freshman Week you will have a chance to show your stuff in endless auditions held by the marching, concert and jazz bands, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, Collegium Musicum, and the Bach Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Guide to Freshman Week | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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