Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Randall Thompson avoided the language problem in the Alleluia, as Woodworth observes in his notes, by using only the single word of the title. But he met it squarely in setting his mass to an English text, and he emerges triumphant. Except for an excessive diminuendo on "invisible," every word is perfectly set forth in the music, especially in the Gloria and the Credo, while each of the various parts is uniquely treated, the mass remains a unified and very beautiful whole...
...name of a joint group must include the words "Harvard-Radcliffe" except in the case of organizations whose titles have "a far-reaching and ancient tradition...
...Council's resolution insisted that the mergers be voluntary, that every Harvard club admitting Radcliffe members change its name to "Harvard-Radcliffe" except in the case of traditional titles--and that each merging club submit a revised constitution to the Student Council guarenteeing Radcliffe students full membership rights...
...There it was, against the fireplace, and there seemed to be scarcely anything else in the room except the sunny light on the floor. It was very long and dark; smooth like a boat; with bright handles. Half the top was open. There was a strange, sweet smell, so faint that it could scarcely be realized. Rufus had never known such stillness. Their little sounds, as they approached, vanished upon it like the infinitesimal whisperings of snow, falling on open water. There was his head, his arms; suit; there he was ... He saw him much more clearly than...
...revelations carry his strangely sentimental imprimatur ("My Southern belle remembers tenderly those dear dead days . . ."). The book, irresistible to students of U.S. life and manners, is the story of Mary's life with Sinclair, that strange, admirable, preposterous figure of a vanished America-a man with every gift except humor and silence...