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...concerto is the handiwork of Philadelphia-born Composer Robert Parris, 33. who got the idea from his old pal and fellow student (at the Juilliard School of Music), Fred Begun, 29, currently the regular tympanist for the National Symphony. "I suggested five drums jestingly," says Begun (four drums is the usual orchestral maximum). Composer Parris. who has turned out a sizable quantity of chamber music, took the jest in earnest, sat down to write a piece which would test the "untapped melodic resources" of the drums. The technical problems, he discovered, were sizable. Examples: how to pass rapidly from...
...oath law was passed in Illinois in 1955, we predicted that it would "catch" no subversives and serve only to harass people of conscience. The plight of ex-janitor Hjalmar Andersson is only one evidence of this. We look to the day when the legislature will undo its 1955 handiwork...
Published in the Near East, Africa and Asia, it is abundantly clear that this article would surpass even the handiwork of John Foster Dulles. Published in the CRIMSON, it was to say the least, the height of poor taste. Admittedly, a liberal paper tells both sides of all important issues; however, a wallowing in vulgarities is certainly beyond the scope of a Harvard publication. Ideas worth being heard, it seems, are worthy of decent expression. Moreover, it has been years since such vile language has appeared even in most of the newspapers of the deep South. However, ambivalence neither justifies...
...eleventh duke would have to put Chatsworth on the block, and see its treasures scattered round the world. But the young Devonshire, whose family motto is Cavendo tutus (Secure by Caution), vowed: "I will fight to the bitter end." At this point he was aided by the legal handiwork of a doctrinaire Socialist. Back in 1946 Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, operating on the Socialist theory that "the best that still remains should surely become the heritage not of a few private owners but of all our people," set aside a $140 million fund to reimburse the internal revenue...
Meanwhile, the Senate got ready to pass its handiwork this week by a generous vote. It was left to Georgia's Dick Russell to administer the coup de grâce in grand style. The South, said he after a post-victory caucus, had decided not to filibuster against the bill as it now stands...