Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complex as Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, but it invites comparison to that modern masterwork in its personal comment on a desperate universal theme. A Spanish exile who lives in near hermitry outside Cambridge, Gerhard spent more than a year fashioning his brilliantly distilled-libretto from Stuart Gilbert's translation of the novel, then found the music for his words in six more months. The score has only the merest wisps of melody, but the music achieves some deeply stirring and unnerving moments -as when an orchestral whimper mimics the creak of a shutter in an empty street...
...Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, will serve as acting president of the college during President Bunting's leave of absence next year. Mrs Bunting was appointed by President Johnson last week to a one-year term on the Atomic Energy Commission...
Selected by the Radcliffe College Council at its monthly meeting yesterday, Mrs. Gilbert will assume many--but not all--of the duties now fulfilled by Mrs. Bunting. She will concentrate especially on soliciting contributions to Radcliffe and on carrying out the social functions of the presidency. Thus, she will act as hostess for the college and will work with the alumni...
...inordinately fond of Radcliffe," Mrs. Gilbert declared last night, "and will do what I can for the college to make it possible for Mrs. Bunting to fulfill a major job for the country...
...Gilbert had been chairman of the Board since 1958 and served as a trustee for many years before that. Although she lives in Dover, she plans to maintain a room in the Alumni House where she will be available to undergraduates...