Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gulping coffee in the House restaurant early one morning, Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall was summoned to the telephone. Over the wire came a familiar voice: "Len, I've got an idea I want to speak to you about. Come on over." Hall washed out a plane reservation to New York, called off his political engagements there, and trundled away to the White House. He was delighted at having his schedule mixed up: the call from Dwight Eisenhower, who wanted to talk about the campaign, was another proof of the President's vastly increased interest in party politics...
John Austin, whose music is familiar to Harvard audiences, was represented by two sets of pieces: Five Settings of a Locrian chorale, for piano, and Four Modal Canons, for two violins and viola. The first group is not very good; the second, much better. Austin's piano music is an agglomeration of modal progressions, cast in big thick chords insensitively connected. There is nothing particularly cerebral in his style. Little is said. The same applies to the Canons. There-part canon at the unison or octave is difficult to write, since the harmonies during the imitations are somewhat limited...
...Ideally," he adds, "the adviser should have technical knowledge of the student's field; he should have foresight enough to predict the number of applicants to graduate schools in five years; he should be familiar with all the courses in the university; and he should know and understand his advisee's personality almost immediately. This person just doesn't exist...
...kind of rhythm to another, from squirming to slogging to swaying to trotting, but somehow the jazz feeling remains. Vibraphonist Charles, not content with rhythmic exploration, exploits harmonic possibilities developed by Duke Ellington, uses dissonance to achieve color and mood rather than sheer shock. The album ranges from familiar (Nature Boy) to far-out (Lydian...
...Americain." The author attended the Summer School here last year and upon his return to France wrote what is apparently a very popular and easy-to-sell type of report. "La Bourse Egyptienne" headlined the article: "Harvard University, New Convent where alchol is prohibited but psychoanalysis is familiar, and where students work for the pleasure of earning money." The editor printed the excerpts because of their "new point of view, not tainted by political color-blindness nor preoccupied with propagandistic purposes." (Translation was done by Gavin R.W. Scott...