Word: concorde
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...Radcliffe Varsity vs. Concord Academy...
PAUL TSONGAS. A slight man of Greek descent, Tsongas, 33, is a former Peace Corpsman and Robert Kennedy supporter who became the first Democrat in 90 years to win in a district that includes historic Lexington and Concord near Boston. He is a Yale Law School graduate whose campaign against Republican Incumbent Paul Cronin largely turned into arguments over disclosing income tax returns, personal credibility and political tactics. The campaign became a personality contest in which Tsongas' quiet confidence and unassuming manner were more effective. He had a succinct explanation for his success: "The people wanted a Democrat...
Sullivan conceded that "the liberal vote did a job" on him. He said Buckley's liberal support came from Framingham, Newton, Lexington and Concord...
...agents, which other insurance companies quickly imitated. Ives himself wrote the firm's sales handbook The Amount to Carry-Measuring the Prospect. It became a Bible of the industry. His memos to his agents were low in sales talk and high in a thoughtful style worthy of the Concord philosophers. Example: "When Wordsworth said that he could write like Shakespeare if he had a mind to, Charles Lamb replied: 'Yes-the mind is the only thing lacking'... So if [the agent] cannot increase his business in 1916 it will be because 'the mind is lacking...
...Concord Sonata, all the ambivalences and ambiguities work. All through the sonata Ives keeps returning to the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but they sound with a double edge. Beethoven meant to Ives all that was most progressive, most substantial, most radical--the "last sublime echoes of the greatest socialist symphonies" and "the relentlessness of fate knocking at the door." But in the third movement of the sonata, "The Alcotts," Ives made the four notes over, into an old hymn tune, as peaceful and completed as the camp-meeting songs his grandmother had sung. The tune recurs...