Word: lamentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the Met audience heard was Stravinsky gone autumnal. The music began with a brass fanfare in antique vein, worked its often dissonant way through a series of style movements reminiscent of Handel, Mozart and, occasionally, subdued Verdi. It had uncharacteristic lyrical moments, e.g., Tenor Eugene Conley's lament in the brothel scene and Hilde Gueden's pretty love song in the garden, and jabs of vulgar humor in Blanche Thebom's bearded-lady scenes. But it never found anything to get excited about, and rarely attempted to follow an idea very...
...Solution in Korea" is the first sensible suggestion on this issue to appear in the press since the Communists moved across the 38th parallel. As one of those W.W. II retreads who spent months along the present battle line in Korea, however, I can only lament that this strategy has been too long delayed...
...Gift of the week: $3,950,000 left to educational, cultural and civic organizations by Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, widow of the late J. P. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lament, longtime board chairman of Morgan's banking house. Largest slice of the bequest ($2,950,000) went to women's colleges because "women's education is just as important for our country as men's education." Items: to Smith College, $1,200,000 as a "token of my special indebtedness for four happy and stimulating years there"; to Barnard College, $500,000 for being...
While 500 freshman petitioners waited for news on their proposal to keep Lament Library open on Sundays, and later on week nights, the Union Committee voted last night to obtain a temporary study hall...
Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of the College, previously told the Committee that their proposal to keep open one or two floors of Lament would not be possible because of the library's vertical heating and lighting systems...