Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GEORGIA'S ELLIOTT LEVITAS. When Levitas, 44, went to Washington last January, he was not as optimistic or naive as many members of his entering class. For nearly a decade, Levitas had been in and around the state legislature, learning that lawmaking, like politics, is the art of the possible...
...year-old bookshop owner and amateur carpenter from the British provinces. If his life has not exactly been blasted by Pooh and Mummy, it has had its melancholy moments, and with both parents now dead, he has written a book. This is the age of dreadful domestic disclosure (Elliott Roosevelt nipping at Eleanor in the guise of historian; Nigel Nicolson vicariously reveling in the vagaries of V. Sackville-West). A friend of Pooh therefore at first approaches Enchanted Places the way Piglet crept up on the Heffalump trap: full of horrible fascination but ready to run for his life...
...Elliott Maddox doubled home a disputed run in the third inning and Chris Chambliss drove in two runs in the ninth to help the streaking New York Yankees to their eighth straight victory, 4-1, over the Chicago White...
...most important outcomes of the Bicentennial project, however, is the way different orchestras have joined to share the commissioning and guarantee wide audiences for the results. Example: John Cage, Elliott Carter, Leslie Bassett, Jacob Druckman, David Del Tredici and Morton Subotnick are writing works for, respectively, the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Each orchestra is committed to play not just the work it has commissioned but all other five works. A similar round robin will involve seven orchestras in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Washington...
...Tercentenary Theater bears such a startling resemblance to the Yard. Another is that so many of them are realizing for the first time that Commencement is not a beginning, but an end. "Oh, mama," they wait "Can this really be Commencement? To be stuck inside of Harvard Yard with...Elliott Richardson...