Word: marc
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...personal problem with casino gaming," says Marc E. Widdiss, a member of the tribe. "Casinos are a pseudo-entertainment form to take your money. If you don't know that, you have no business putting one in your town...
...scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia gave Rorem entry into the company of the other wunderkinder and their mentors who, from the 1940s on, would do much to define what serious American music was all about: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein, Lukas Foss, Samuel Barber, John Cage. Rorem's feelings of admiration, doubt, jealousy and gratefulness for these figures inspire the sharpest sketches in a book crammed with sharp sketches. On two composers who straddled the concert stage and Broadway: "Lenny Bernstein would never have been quite what he was without the firm example...
...want to see the Wampanoag name stuck on some silly carnival ride or a hamburger joint," says Marc E. Widdiss, a member of the tribe. "This does nothing to enhance our image...
Instead, in a ceremony where more than 1200 audience members were actually encouraged to heckle, master of ceremonies Marc A. Abrahams '78 and an entourage of Harvard Nobel laureates presented the fourth annual Ig Nobel awards...
Only about two percent of the nominees each year actually win Ig Nobel Prizes, according to Marc A. Abrahams '78, who accepts the nominations year-round...