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...formal transfer of power to a new President of the U.S. is always a solemn moment. It is also a moment of promise, a time for hopeful pledges rather than penitential litanies. Columbia Historian Henry Graff calls the act of transition "America's stirring rite of political renewal." The mood of Inauguration 1969 is neither the bleak desperation of 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt succeeded Herbert Hoover amid the Great Depression, nor the partisan exhilaration of 1965, after Lyndon Johnson had been elected in his own right. The U.S. is in grave crisis, yet the President-elect has revealed little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TOWARD THE NIXON INAUGURATION | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Married. Erich Leinsdorf, 56, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1962; and Vera Graff, 33, Brazilian-born violinist; both for the second time (he divorced his wife of 28 years last May); in Albany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 6, 1968 | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

Last week a vast panoply of pianistic tal ent sat in Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall to hear one of their number, Gary Graff man, play Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms. Afterward, led by the formidable Artur Rubinstein, they went back to the Green Room to shake hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: The Busy Eclectic | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...Ralph Pulitzer, daughter-in-law of the founder of the prizes, and Henry Graff, chairman of Columbia University's History Department, backed Richard Morris, for his book "The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American independence." Mrs. Pulitzer said Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pulitzer Board Snubs History Jury In Awarding Prize to Perry Miller | 5/5/1966 | See Source »

Twitchedy, twatchedy, flippedy, flappedy, flong your own thong tong, snickety poo. Griff, graff, gobble, gobble, ghrrr, gar, gorrr, goo goo goo. Wap, wap, flaptrap, wonk wonk weee. Zap, zap, backtrack, zonk zonk zeee. Wish I may, wish I might have the wish I wish tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memento Morey | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

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