Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeling, all right, but as tough and tyrannical as any emperor who had preceded him in the rule of his great and long-suffering land...
Warm afternoon sunshine slanted through the windows of Kingston's 19th Century stone House of Representatives building. In the tiny, paneled chamber, the Opposition representative from East Westmoreland was attacking the land-development policy of His Majesty's Executive Council. In the course of his speech, he referred to Jamaica's Minister of Communications as "good to twist" (Jamaican for corrupt...
...poems of German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke's The Life of the Virgin Mary (Das Marienleben), he determined to set them to song. But the first performance of Marienleben, 25 years ago, was not, even Hindemith admitted, "a sensational success." Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen...
These are some of the facts which Theodore B. Pitman '14 had to know before he could complete or even start his diorama of Harvard college in the eighteenth century. Pitman and his staff are now putting the final touches on the model land it will go on display in widener Library sometime in the Spring...
Lillio's map was the result of 10 years of borrowing around archives and delving into ancient land deeds. But Pitman still needed to know just how large these buildings were, what colors they were painted, what the landscaping locked like and even the kinds of fences that had been built--all of it information which seemed impossible to obtain...