Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives with his wife in a wood-and-glass, stilt-supported house in Berkeley, composes in a studio tucked below next to the garage. When he wrote his ambitious concerto, he had scant hope that it would be played, but went ahead anyway because "I wanted to express everything I could." His "everything" proved to be quite enough for the critics. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein : "If it is all a total failure, the festival will nevertheless have been justified because it occasioned the first performance of Andrew Imbrie's Violin Concerto. It impressed...
...palm-leaf motif, sometimes a tie with a bulb-breasted nude. His Stetson sat squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster, London clubman, stage designer, critic of architecture (Pillar to Post...
DINERS' CLUB, which now has 600,000 charge customers, will get its first big competition from American Express, which is expected to soon start signing up restaurants and hotels for its own charge system for meals, rooms, travel...
...Regardless of its origin," Bruner argued, "the pursuit of a University is secular." He stated that the search for truth "is damaged by commitment based on faith," and that, therefore, the University should not express official opinions on religious matters...
Edwards, Becker, and at least two other Harvard students participated during Spring vacation in the "Walk for Peace" movement. A number of other students also traveled on foot from New Haven to the United Nations Building in New York to express their opposition to bomb testing...