Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early Fascination. Once he got out of an English prisoner-of-war camp in 1945, Henze began staging what amounts to a one-man revival of German music. But since 1952, he has lived in Italy as something of a cultural exile. "I was eager to leave the growing materialism and persisting narrowness of my motherland," he says. His music, though, remains German in its contrapuntal structure, and it is still played mostly in die Heimat. But respectful German critics readily grant Henze his Stravinskian legacy and the Italianate influences in his music. Says H. H. Stuckenschmidt...
Enthusiasm among the crowd ran high, especially when house committee Chairman John Purvis told them the march on Kirkland had been thwarted by a Cambridge regulation which requires a parade permit to march across a city street. Temporarily frustrated, the crowd of eager Funsters turned to shouting "wonk" to students deserting the cause for Lamont and study...
...that it was rather difficult to judge just where the trickle of champagne would fall as you bent underneath the graceful silver spigot. Nevertheless, there was a general feeling of elation. The trophy would certainly prove useful at tea, if nothing else.The final trickle is sopped up by an eager Funster...
Enthusiasm among the crowd ran high, especially when house committee Chairman John Purvis told them the march on Kirkland had been thwarted by a Cambridge regulation which requires a parade permit to march across a city street. Temporarily frustrated, the crowd of eager Funsters turned to shouting "wonk" to students deserting the cause for Lamont and study...
...that it was rather difficult to judge just where the trickle of champagne would fall as you bent underneath the graceful silver spigot. Nevertheless, there was a general feeling of elation. The trophy would certainly prove useful at tea, if nothing else.The final trickle is sopped up by an eager Funster...