Word: hugh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Government Hugh Heclo said he will make the move to the suburban, northern Virginia school in order to raise his family in what he called a more pleasant, rural environment...
...Hugh Calkins '45, recently retired senior fellow of Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation, is expected to be among 10 honorary degree recipients at the University's 335th Commencement exercises Thursday...
...Governor fired off a bristling letter. Strauss tried to telephone for days, but Cuomo spurned the calls. After a disagreement with another national official, Cuomo demanded and got a public retraction, dictated verbatim by the Governor himself. Sometimes Cuomo can be physically intimidating. Years ago, when then Governor Hugh Carey backed away from a promise to support him, Cuomo protested in person. He felt betrayed and said so angrily. Stung, Carey started to rise out of his chair. "Sit down, Hughie," warned Cuomo, "or I'll knock you right on your ass." Carey leaned back into the chair...
...Cuomo ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor. The decorum of the courtroom had not prepared him for the hurly-burly of the soapbox. "I was too professorial," Cuomo recalls. Hugh Carey, whom Cuomo knew from St. John's, was elected Governor and persuaded Cuomo to take on the largely ceremonial job of secretary of state. In 1977 Carey pushed Cuomo to run for mayor of New York City. Cuomo, overcompensating for his preceptorial manner, turned almost surly. In the campaign debates, he made Congressman Ed Koch appear to be the victim, not an easy thing to accomplish...
During one five-week period last winter, the Philadelphia Orchestra offered the world premieres of challenging concertos by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Richard Wernick. In New York City in February, Elmar Oliveira gave the first performance of a lyrical new work by Hugh Aitken, while in Montreal, Stern contributed the North American premiere of French Composer Henri Dutilleux's impressionistic concerto. The same month Virtuoso Shlomo Mintz played Marc Neikrug's neoromantic concerto for the second time, having presented its world premiere in 1984. And this week Sergiu Luca will give the American premiere of William Bolcom's frisky new concerto...