Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...management of this concert showed some worthwhile innovations. Several of the performers were musicians hired for the occasion, and thanks to Music Department funds, the eight pieces played (from Leon Kirchner's composition seminar) all received competent performances. The evening lacked the impromptu quality which has usually marred these concerts, and a fine crowd came to hear...
...Wednesday meeting appointed Leon Bramson, assistant professor of Social Relations, to edit the essays and prepare them for publication in booklet form. The booklet will be distributed to all members of the Faculty. It is likely that there will be considerable interest in the study outside of the University...
Nothing in America save the Civil Rights Commission--and maybe, in a necessarily limited way, Henry Kissinger and Leon Keyserling--now fulfills these requirements. Yet how often is it said that the Kennedy Administration needs enlightened criticism, that the press is not doing its job, and that even professors who would be critical are set back by their lack of information? The country badly needs straightforward and informed comments on its government's policies, recommendations that cannot be lightly disregarded, and that, even if not adopted, command respect. Without intelligent help, the Presidents may simply continue to repeat the performance...
...ultra-conservative grande presse; but a meeting-place for distinguished and gifted intellectuals whose disdain for the republic was wholly disinterested, the result of literary and philosophical predispositions, not any desire to safeguard financial investments. Its members included Paul Claudel, Jacques Maritain, Georges Bernanons, Maurice Barres and Leon Daudet (son of Alphonse). Charles Maurras, who founded and led the movement until its demise in 1944, began as a critic propagandist, really--calling for the revival of the classical literary norms and the scuttling of romanticism: only later did he embark on a career of agitation for a social and political...
...President's plan to reform the tax mechanism, set forth in the budget message as a panacea-of-sorts, was described by Leon Keyserling as "a pigmy sent out to do a giant's job." The economist explained to the Joint Economic Committee that the Kennedy tax program assumes that awarding rebates to those in the upper-brackets will provide the financial and psychological impetus to reinvest. But the program rests on a hope, and the hope itself entails certain assumptions about the risk-taking mentality of the prevailing industrial leadership...