Word: everett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Streams," (commissioned by Thomas Everett, the group's conductor) suggests that its composer David Cope has mellowed since the time he wrote "Yes," his most famous piece. Gone are the color slides and Moog tapes of that multi-media effort; added are eleven string players who contrast with the wind ensemble. Bypassing serialism in favor of a three-note motif, "Streams" emphasizes texture and unusual playing techniques. The required virtuoso percussion work came off well; the winds ruslted and the strings glid. The Cambridge fire house unwittingly added aleatoric effects, and a good time...
Only one professor, Everett Mendelsohn, seriously addressed the Union demands. Not once in the meeting was the Union mentioned by name by a Faculty member. At 6 p.m., the moment to terminate or extend debate, the Faculty packed up and went home. It could not be more clear that it doesn't really give a damn, and will gladly leave the graduate students to the administration so long as Faculty members still have the same number of graduate students to do their research...
...prisoners themselves convincingly refuted such speculation. Said Navy Captain Howard E. Rutledge: " am surprised anyone could conceive that we could come out of there and say anything but 'God bless America.' Added Lieut. Commander Everett Alvarez Jr.: "For years and years we've dreamed of this day, and we kept the faith-faith in God, in our President and in our country...
Navy Lieut. Commander Everett Alvarez Jr., who was captured in 1964 and became the longest-held prisoner in North Viet Nam, bounced down the ramp after Denton. In the second plane from Hanoi came Air Force Colonel James Robinson ("Robbie") Risner, an Air Force ace from World War II, Korea and Viet Nam, who was captured in 1965. "It's like we've been asleep for seven years," he said...
...Gogh's The Olive Pickers, to Marlborough Fine Art galleries. No price was given, but the reliable figure was $1.5 million for the two. This is well below their market value; the Rousseau alone was resold only days later to a Japanese collector for $2,000,000. Everett Fahy, 31, the Met's brilliant curator of European paintings, did not want to lose the Rousseau and refused to sign the deaccession form. On this occasion, Hoving overrode him, though, in theory, the Met's official de-accessioning procedure is full of checks and balances. "Generally," says...