Word: fifteenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-playing release by Cambridge Records (CRC 101) he leads the Harvard Glee club in seven pieces of fifteenth and sixteenth century church music. Once again he attempts to reproduce the original performance practices. Instead of the modern ideal of polished clarity, he stresses the vague outlines of the phrases. Instead of using an acoustically perfect hall, he makes the recordings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, whose stone walls most nearly duplicate the resonance of Renaisance churches. But these are not more pedantic touches. While there is very little in a Handel oratorio that requires an eighteenth century type performance...
Starting on the Harvard 39, Yale quarterback Ed Molloy pitched the Bulldogs down to the four. He then threw high to Ed Woodsum, and the tall end caught the ball for the fifteenth touchdown of his career. Woodsum thus broke the Yale record of 14 held by Larry Kelley...
...corner of the dining room Vag spotted a Fine Arts tutor sitting alone, a pleasant young man who seemed perpetually lost in fifteenth century Florence. Vag caught the tutor's eyes, smiled at him, and edged his way over to the distant table. He said hello and sat down opposite the tutor. There was no response From across the table and Vag looked up. The Fine Arts tutor was staring at the ceiling with his fifteenth-century look in his eyes. The tutor lowered his eyes toward Vag and said, "Isn't he wonderful?" "Who?" said...
...story is built around a "wild, funny, and savage woman who runs a New York rooming house on East Fifteenth Street." Martin Ritt has been mentioned as director...
...maintain control of the 1950 district conventions, the C.I.O. equipped important Wayne County meeting places with goons. The Fifteenth Congressional District convention, for example, was held in the headquarters of a U.A.W. local. Delegates were received in a small anteroom where half a dozen factory workers watched while credentials were checked. If a delegate passed, he was allowed to proceed through a gantlet of guards, one of whom was armed with something resembling a baseball bat. If the delegate was considered unfriendly, he might be seated on the convention floor with a husky C.I.O. "guardian" on either side. With...