Word: horned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oromo and Somali, of growing importance for the students of Africo-Semitic languages and the history of the Horn of Africa...
...pledge, you can fulfill some nebulous dream with a chance to conduct the Boston Pops through your infantile interpretation of "Stars and Stripes Forever." Garner $100 between you and the three other members of you tin-alley string quartet, and Richard Mackey, BSO horn player will run through the Mozart horn quintet (K. 407) with your group. Pops principal cellist, Martin Hoherman, vows to "add lustre to your cello playing" with a series of five lessons, at a modest...
...premiums for the generous and non-musical, musical and daring, non-daring and generous pledgers. Two one-hour flying lessons with Joseph Hearne, BSO bass player, for $200; chocolate rum cake baked by BSO violinist Ronan Lefkowitz '75 for $25; a doubles tennis match against violinist Sheldon Rotenburg and horn player Ralph Pottle...
...hard to find fault with this voluminous first novel of brutality at sea. Joseph Conrad and John Dos Passes, writing in shifts, might have been able to handle its alternating themes: the oppression of sailors during a perilous voyage from New York around Cape Horn to San Francisco, and the near dissolution of U.S. society into class war preceding the presidential election of 1896. The first 50 pages show that Author Sterling Hayden, movie star turned writer, has little hope of bringing his book under artistic control...
...maritime adventures, is no stranger to the sea. It is in the explications of bygone politics and economics that his Voyage is becalmed for long periods. Happily, the same does not hold true for the four-masted bark Neptune's Car. The steel-hulled vessel beats around the Horn with a cargo of smoldering coal. Its crew, as was customary, is a forecastle full of alcoholics, shanghaied by waterfront "crimps." Kidnaping of able-bodied seamen was a routine necessity, Hayden reports: wages were $1 a day and the hard-driving officers were licensed bullies who regularly committed mayhem...