Word: hamilton
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...Hamilton Harty: An Irish Symphony...
...Bryden Thomson conducting the Ulster Orchestra; Chandos). Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) is probably best known in America as a reorchestrator of Handel's Water Music. But Harty, born in County Down, was also a composer and conductor. The Irish Symphony mixes such well-known tunes as The Girl I Left Behind Me with Gaelic airs and original melodies to produce a score worthy of comparison with another delightful, little-known Irish Symphony-Sir Arthur Sullivan...
When Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. became the first director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1929, he was also its sole employee. The museum was little more than an idea in the minds of its founders. Barr, a Presbyterian minister's son from Detroit, was only 27, a fastidious but boldly original scholar who was teaching the nation's first college course (at Wellesley) on modern art. Although he was ridiculed for his conviction that the art of the day belonged in a museum, he assiduously acquired Picassos, Matisses and Monets until MOMA...
...pipples"-that is the cry of this satirical son of the old Zorro movies and TV show. It is also a fair sample of its mild-to put it mildly-humor. As the macho son of the legendary hero, again righting tyrannical rulers in old Los Angeles, George Hamilton relies heavily on the limited laugh potential of a thick accent. He also plays a twin who is gay, reluctantly substituting for his more virile brother when the latter breaks an ankle. The gay twin redesigns Zorro's basic-black costume in more flamboyant shades and informs the peons...
...unemployment and general decline. All three networks interviewed Britons eloquent about problems. Enoch Powell was trotted out, the dour fellow who once warned of a parallel with the river Tiber running red with blood in ancient Rome if "colored" immigration in Britain was not reduced. A Scottish M.P., Willie Hamilton, who thinks the Crown an expensive anachronism and Princesses Margaret and Anne in particular to be parasites, got a long and polite hearing from Ted Koppel on ABC. Glimpses of cockney women cooing about Lady Di's charms were offset by skinheads as indifferent to the wedding...