Word: karle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after earning his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. (the second in music ever awarded at Harvard) in less than six years, Davison settled down at the College as an instructor with vague notions of composing orchestral music. Encouraged by Dr. Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Davison composed his "Tragic Overture," an orchestral piece founded on Hawthorne's gruesome tale of Rappacini and the sacrifice of his daughter. Performed by the BSO, the overtime brought favorable reviews which praised Davison's "uncrring taste and exceeding skill in the handling of thematic material and the arrangement of orchestral color...
...copy of the Army report, two days before the press did. Clutching it in his hand with one of his canes (he lost both legs in World War II combat), Potter went to the Senate cloakroom and got Illinois' Ev Dirksen and South Dakota's Karl Mundt, both GOP members of the subcommittee, to come off the floor. Potter showed them the report and, his voice all but strangled in anger, insisted that the subcommittee meet at once and fire Roy Cohn. Dirksen and Mundt urged caution...
...Moss testified that she had never even heard of Communism until 1948, swore she "would have reported" anyone who asked her for a coded Signal Corps message. She was asked: "Did you ever hear of Karl Marx?" The crowd laughed as she answered: "Who's that...
...Washington's Birthday, both Stevens and South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the McCarthy committee, were due at Valley Forge, Pa. to receive Freedom Foundation awards. Stevens offered Mundt a ride in his Army plane. In flight. Senator Mundt cautioned Stevens to get and read the transcript of Zwicker's testimony before he went any further in counterattacking McCarthy. The angry Stevens replied that the transcript might have been altered. Mundt assured him that the stenotype notes could be read by an expert...
Meeting No. 4. Bob Stevens, a man-of-good-will trained in a family textile business, walked with Karl Mundt into the Capitol's room P-54. Later, a Washington quipster observed that when Stevens entered the room, he was "like a goldfish in a tank of barracuda." Meeting No. 4 featured fried chicken, peas, french fries, head-of-lettuce salad and Joe McCarthy. Also present: Dirksen, and later, Potter. Stevens started with a complaint about McCarthy's abuse of Zwicker. Retorted McCarthy: How could the Army explain the court-martialing of "a poor, brainwashed G.I."* in contrast...