Word: da
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will present a concert that includes Junior Fellow David Lewin's Essay on a Subject by Anton Webern. Honegger's Concerto da Camera for Flute and English Horn (with Ellen Friedman '63 and Barbara '63), Brahms' Symphony...
Governor General Alvaro da Silva Tavares was proud of the unruffled calm displayed by his larger-than-Texas colony. In his chandelier-hung office in the capital city of Luanda, he told the few remaining reporters that the Santa Maria incident had united his people as never before. "Even those who don't agree with us are indignant at this attack on the Portuguese nation," he said, and boasted of the brotherly love existing between 200,000 Portuguese settlers and 4,300,000 Africans. The governor general had one cautionary note: "We are aware of the threat of Communists...
...crack troops to Angola, which would be more than a match for Galvão's 70 rebels and whatever sympathizers he may have in the colony. Brazilian observers speculated that Galvão was simply cruising about in the Atlantic until newly elected President Jânio da Silva Quadros takes office this week, in the hope that he will grant asylum to Galv...
...Bess. A Juilliard alumna, she turned from musical comedy to grand opera in an NBC-TV production of Tosca, was soon making guest appearances with the San Francisco opera. But it was in Europe that her career really caught fire. She made her European debut in Aïda in 1958, at the Vienna Staatsoper under Herbert von Karajan, has since sung in most of Europe's leading houses, including La Scala. This year at the Met she will also appear in Aïda, Butterfly, Turandot and Don Giovanni. On hand to see her debut last week were...
Trade Terminology. Most of the terms discussed are available in any dictionary or encyclopedia, but Authors Beckson (who teaches English at Fairleigh Dickinson University) and Ganz (who teaches the same at Rutgers) have chosen very lively illustrations for their literary zoology. To explain the IAMB(US), or basic "da DA," of English speech in prose or poetry, they have picked not a respectably well-worn Shakespearean line but A. E. Housman's absurdly memorable