Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their performance of Richard Strauss's Serenade for Thirteen Winds they sounded and appeared every bit as unrehearsed as the full Band. This work of the sixteen-year-old Strauss is a straightforward exercise in the academic, conservatory style of the late nineteenth-century. The opening theme is a cross between the Schumann piano concerto and piano quartet, and the rest is not only warmed-over, but decadent Mendelssohn. It is a delightful work in its way, but to succeed it requires complete control and attention to detail that the ensemble, heads buried in the music, was not prepared...
From Herman Melville's Captain Vere (who hanged Billy Budd) to Herman Wouk's Captain Queeg (who rolled ball bearings during the Caine mutiny), naval literature has teemed with tales of rumbustious skippers and mutinous crewmen. Of late, the U.S. Navy has pitched and rolled to a real-life story that has all the elements of legend: a destroyer in war-torn waters, a high-handed captain called Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, a roster of rebellious junior officers respectively named Hardy, Generous and Belmonte, and a precipitate change of command that reverberated clear to the Secretary of the Navy...
...source of strength to his own life." Following their engagement, Bonhoeffer initially accepted the prospect of a lengthy betrothal out of respect to Maria's family. "But soon," she writes, "he objected clearly, decisively and repeatedly. When we succeeded in changing the dictum, it was too late; he had been imprisoned...
...late afternoon the crowd was discussing more meetings for Wednesday night to decide whether the demonstration would continue today. Sproul Hall is usually locked for the night...
...Cambridge residents voted for the resolution, which called for the "prompt return home of the American soldiers from Vietnam." Voters cast 17,742 "no" ballots. There were 1960 blank ballots. The City had obtained a special legislative act delaying the count until yesterday to allow the counting of late absentee ballots...