Word: elliott
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Much more successful were reprises of two of the most important works ever commissioned by Fromm: Luciano Berio's Circles (1960) and Elliott Carter's Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961). These performances flanked a rare public appearance by Fromm in which he pleaded eloquently for better integration of contemporary and traditional music rather than a mere "busing of indiscriminately chosen new music to the halls of Brahms and Beethoven...
...controversy she had the knack of simultaneously joining the battle and remaining above it. She needed to, if only to survive her sons' destructive political forays. In 1948 Elliott's tenacious effort to draft Eisenhower for the Democrats discomfited his mother as well as President Truman and the general. Lash sums up the situation in 1952 with one terse sentence: "Not only was James for Kefauver and Franklin Jr. Harriman's campaign manager, but Elliott and John had come out for Eisenhower" (who was by then the Republican candidate...
...Farmer Elliott's refusal of the $ 10,000 American Airlines elected to give him, in hopes of receiving 5%-10% of the ransom, puts him in my estimate in the same category as the skyjacker...
There was Brobdingnagian Songbird Mama Cass Elliott at Harrods, the elegant London department store, buying crochet wool and minding her own business. "I pulled two ? 1 notes out of my purse," said Mama Cass, "but they were wrapped inside five ? 10 notes, which fell to the floor. When I stooped to pick them up, this lady started hitting me on the head with her shopping bag, shouting 'What are you doing? What are you doing?' I don't know why she did it. She was an upper-class type, in a tweed suit, and I think...
...Yorker who was educated at Columbia, Harvard and the Sorbonne, Lansner was an assistant philosophy professor at Ohio's Kenyon College and an editor of Art News before he joined Newsweek in 1954. Last week, while Lansner talked about "becoming a human being again, even having weekends off," Elliott claimed to welcome his own return to the grind. "It was a long haul," he said of his previous stint as editor, "but now the pressure has cooled, and I'm looking forward to going back in. I guess I'm gung-ho." A former TIME writer...