Word: listener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's ten-man unit commands a healthy chunk of 826 votes. Less articulate chapter representatives from the grass-roots do not seem hesitant to listen to counsel that the delegation-hep on national AVC problems and politics-is happy to dispense. Chapter chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 and delegation head Reginald Zalles 2G are lining up a busy program of committee meets for their contingent: Richard G. Axt '46, Thomas R. Brooks '50, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Frank L. Haley 45, Selig S. Harrison '48, Russell H. Jackson 2L, William E. Nelson 1G, and Andrew E. Rice...
...high-domed Statuary Hall to commemorate the 139th birthday of the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. With routine reverence, the ladies placed a wreath before the eight-foot bronze statue of Jefferson Davis (which stared gloomily north). Then they sat back to listen to a eulogy by sallow, hawk-nosed Dr. Charles C. Tansill, Texas-born history professor at Washington's Georgetown University...
...Words, and "scores of feeble organ pieces called Dreams, Harmonies du Soir, Berceuse, or Forest Vespers." As for sexiness, Gounod is perhaps the worst offender: "Voluptuousness . . . was in Gounod's nature; he could not escape it. In opera it is fine; in the church it has no place. Listen to The Redemption ... or to the Seven Last Words of Gounod's spiritual disciple, Dubois! The suave melodies are the same, the suggestive rhythms are the same, the osculatory orchestration is the same. Only the words are different. You can't make sacred music out of operatic...
...petty issues of UN and those Russians, you have utterly failed to attack one of the most heinous practices in this fair land of ours. What is it, you may ask with a sneer. Of course it is the custom of the intentional pass--in baseball. Now listen: I enjoy baseball, love to see the Red Sox play. I go out on a warm June afternoon to see Williams slug away, and what inevitably happens? There are men on second and third and Williams is up. Even the little thrill of pleasure that makes me quiver to think that...
Like smart young Composer Gian-Carlo (The Medium) Menotti (TIME, March 3), Britten has written for a small cast and a chamber orchestra so that his opera can be performed easily and often. His newest music is easier to listen to than to sing. Said Baritone Frank Rogier, who sang the role of Seducer Tarquinius: "Any time you sound in tune with the orchestra, you're off. So you go in the other direction." But Britten's insistent, subtle use of rhythmic and dissonant backgrounds put a wallop into Librettist Ronald Duncan's seething play. The opera...