Word: glees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heading up the West German mission to Moscow was Dr. Karl König, West Berlin's Economics Minister. Like the other West German visitors, König could hardly hide his glee when Russian designers flocked to German displays. They sketched and photographed everything, from the wildest mod look to the more functional fashions that Russian women favor. "Even seamstresses couldn't believe how we put our coats and dresses together," said one West Berliner. "It was all I could do to keep them from tearing the garments apart to see how they were made." Buyers were...
...program opened and closed with two "heavies" from choral literature. Brahms' Schick-salslied, Op. 54, is one of those perrenial favorites of college glee clubs, not terribly difficult to put together and always effective. The singers also made the most of Holderlin's Weltschmerz. Accompanist Robert Kopelson's two-piano arrangement was the best thing next to a full orchestra. He and Lowell Lindgren played it admirably, managing to succeed in spite of Prof. Schmidt's inconquerable compulsion to conduct even them...
Dappled Nouns. If art is Nabokov's muse, words are his mania: puns, anagrams (he has pointed out with glee that T. S. Eliot is almost "toilets" spelled backward), "word golf" (get from "live" to "dead" in five steps*), bilingual and trilingual double-entendres. More seriously, words of any language are vital possessions...
Some nations could scarcely conceal their glee at the crisis. Venezuela, the world's third biggest oil producer after the U.S. and the Soviet Union, has increased production by 7%. Oil-rich Iran, predominantly Moslem but non-Arab, hopes to increase its oil output this year by 20%, to more than $700 million worth; last week new Iranian terminals at Kharg Island and Bandar Mashur were clogged to capacity while a dozen tankers waited offshore for loading space...
Although Yearbook 331 characterized Leverett House as home base of Harvard's musical Establishment, there really is no musical Establishment. Instead, there are five to a dozen groups competing for the privilege. The Glee Club is as much a final club as a music-making organization. The HRO cannot attract many of the best instrumentalists who maintain that their time is better spent practicing privately than rehearsing with the orchestra. By now the "Harvard-Radcliffe" Orchestra has adopted a policy of beefing itself up with players from other colleges and from the conservatories...