Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Leon Berard, 84, member of the French Academy and Raymond Poincare's political protege, a classical scholar who horrified liberals when Minister of Public Instruction during the early 1920s by decreeing compulsory study of Greek and Latin, later (1940-43) was Vichy Ambassador to the Vatican; of influenza; in Paris...
...presented a program of the kind of music it was founded to perform-little-known works by American composers. John Knowles Paine's Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's Lux Aeterna proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt. The whole was something less than the sum of its brilliant parts. Pleasant...
...EURf Leon Uris' Exodus, a plodding novel about Israel that could almost serve as a textbook of inept fiction writing...