Word: dickinsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Ufford, playing first for the Crimson, easily defeated John Dickinson, losing one game, 12 to 15, but winning three others, 15-6, 15-6, 15-12. The most exciting contest of the match was at the number six slot where Charlie Elliot dropped his first game to Bill Banks, but took the next three by close scores to win the match...
Copland's settings for twelve poems of Emily Dickinson were especially enjoyable because they were sung by Katherine Hansel, one of the finest vocalists to appear in Cambridge in months. A soprano, her wide range made her sound at home even in the lowest alto registers. She has a surety of pitch that enables her to make skips of as much as two octaves without noticeable effort. Add to this her spacious tone and fine powers of interpretation, and the result is a singer who would make even bad music sound good...
...Copland's songs are far from bad. Once in a while he sank to the cliche of repeating the first lines at the end of the song, thereby destroying the calculated effect of Dickinson's stanziac form; but on the whole, his settings agreed perfectly with the words. The composer's own playing of the accompaniment made the songs even more enjoyable...
...Optimist. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the only sizable poet the U.S. had between Emily Dickinson and the poetic renaissance around World War I sparked by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. Robinson found the poetic landscape "flowing with milk and water." He injected the gall & wormwood of realism. In general, he celebrated the individual, not by tracking the footprints of great men, but by tracing the soul-prints of weak ones. The Miniver Cheevys, the Richard Corys, the fumblers, the failures, the souses were not freaks to him but symbols of man's suffering...
...District of Columbia bar admitted 350 new lawyers, including Frederick Moore Vinson, 26, son of the Supreme Court Chief Justice. The fledgling lawyers ot a welcome from District Court Judge Dickinson Letts, who had a note of cynicism for those who aspired to the bench. In these days of high taxes, he said, "it takes a peculiar damn fool to be a judge. The pay is like the old gray mare-t ain't what it used...