Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past decade composing a series of works based on various Alice adventures. When several new orchestral works were commissioned for the U.S. Bicentennial, Del Tredici was ready-with the imaginary Alice, not Betsy Ross, as his muse. His creation, Final Alice, billed by the composer as both a "grand concerto for voice and orchestra" and an "opera written in concert form," has already thrilled audiences in more than half a dozen U.S. cities. Last week at New York City's Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra showed off Alice as a fantastical and captivating musical Wonderland, a patchwork of warm...
MacMurray has no grand illusions about his answer to the punting question. He knows he is not a cannon-legged messiah here to save the Crimson charges and nail the coffin corner shut on grid-iron foes. He simply believes he can kick a football and little by little he has been erasing the question mark that shrouded the Harvard punting game in the preseason forecasts...
...with one major picture (That Cold Day in the Park) to his credit. Altman decided to make the film, hired blacklisted writer Ring Lardner, Jr. to do the screenplay, and produced a brilliant black comedy that was a tremendous critical and popular success. M*A*S*H* took the Grand Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, earned Lardner a screenwriting Oscar, and was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award...
...toga parties and all that are fine, but worrying about graduate schools and scholarships is no fun at all. The Rockefeller, for example, had potential. It offered $6 000 for a year of travel and living in a "culture not your own." Great, I thought. I can make six grand by spending a year in Tommy's Lunch...
...leftist intellectual daily Le Monde: The audiences "attracted the immediate sympathy of the public but had disappointed and sometimes worried church officials. The Pope expressed a philosophy of existence that recalled on occasion the Reader's Digest: common sense, a little simple at that, which broke with the grand theological flights of oratory of Paul VI. Visibly, he did not have the culture and the intellectual training of his predecessor...