Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, Menotti turned from small-scale, small-cast operas, such as The Consul, and created a full-scale Italian-style opera, used a large chorus and a 56-piece orchestra (he worked on it for a year, on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation). In preparation, Menotti made two afternoon field trips to Manhattan's Mulberry Street to get the flavor of his subject. He writes with absolute conviction in an idiom that was new when Puccini was young. His strings sing with silken suavity behind tender scenes, but brasses and percussion can also rasp and grump disturbingly...
...Foundation will endow two professorships and provide financial aid for research, advanced fellowships, and an increased library staff. The grant will also cover one half of the cost of an addition to the Law School's existing buildings for accommodating the School's increased international program...
...time when the Shool's resources are fully committed," Griswold said, "the grant for fellowships will enable the Law School to bring to Harvard for advanced study and research men of experience in world commerce and legal affairs from our own and other countries...
Milton Katz '27, director of the program, said last night that the grant will "enable us to go forward more rapidly than we would otherwise be able to do and give us greater latitude for experimentation...
...social welfare, especially, the President's proposals seem far less than adequate. With fifteen million homes classified "substandard" in the 1950 census, the President has asked Congress for the authority to build only seventy thousand public housing units in the next two years. Since the 83rd Congress refused to grant even this pittance, there is a danger that the new Congress may accept the offer. The Democrats should not be content with doing better if it is less than good enough...