Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March 16 announcement, all the clan from Rose to Freckles, the Senator's Irish spaniel, has swarmed across the landscape to pursue voters. While Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith and Brother Teddy manage campaign logistics and strategy, Sisters Jean and Pat, Sister-in-Law Joan and Cousin Polly Fitzgerald descend upon the distaff electorate. Materfamilias Rose is one of the wonders of the campaign. "Look at those legs," marveled a 70-year-old man in Los Angeles. Bobby kids her by telling audiences: "My mother has worked in every campaign since McKinley...
COPLAND: SYMPHONY FOR ORGAN AND ORCHESTRA (Columbia). Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland was finishing his composition studies in Paris in 1924 when he wrote this big, loose-jointed work, first cousin to a concerto. The organ does not contrast with the orchestra but stirs it up and then masses forces with it. Considered shocking at the time ("If a young man at the age of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder!" declared Con ductor Walter Damroseh), the work has never been recorded until now. The New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein...
...rhythm of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't. Swimming through the pages with nothing stronger than a colon to slow them are fragments of memories, conversations, odors, tastes, tactile sensations and dim images from old postcards. Somewhere below, finning almost motionlessly, is the suicide of a cousin beloved by the narrator. He may or may not be responsible for the death because he may or may not have run off to fight in the Spanish Civil...
...students who can take Independent Studies will be limited by the amount of time Faculty members find to supervise these one-man courses. But the CEP (and the Harvard Policy Committee which initiated the reform) can take bows for making Independent Study as well-known and open as its cousin, the Freshman Seminar program...
...however, Allsop has to admit that economic necessity by no means explains why men take to the road. Within the hobo there usually lurked a slightly mad Huck Finn-a fellow with his own restless ideology. He was a tough, radical, reckless, sardonic character who was a hardbitten distant cousin to Walt ("I tramp a perpetual journey") Whitman...