Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Band announced the election of the following officers for 1968-69: Robert Whittemore '69, manager; Donald Tuckwiller '70, co-student conductor; Timothy Feige '70, treasurer; Michael Silver '70, alumni relations director; William van Arsdall '70, record manager; Daniel O'-Connell '70, concert master...
...taken (the only postwar photograph of him was a sneak shot taken in 1957), traveled under aliases, continually switched the license plates on his cars, and was known by sight only to a handful of top Western officials. Last week the West German government announced that its master spy will retire in April, when he reaches...
...Turkey. Even with reduced scoring at the Chapel Hill performance, Brubeck's oratorio attested the composer's solid training as a serious musician, mostly under the eye of the French master Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. In twelve extensive, complex vocal movements, it traces a series of meditations on the universality of faith, with textual fragments drawn by Brubeck and his wife lola from the Gospels and Psalms. What little jazz there is in the score is far removed from the usual Brubeck sophistication: it is a more primitive, elemental sort, blended with folk overtones...
...Other leading firms are Monarch Press, Study Master and Cliff's Notes, which is currently being sued by Random House and the heirs of William Faulkner on the claim that summarizing his works violates copyright laws...
Learning Vietnamese is appropriately perplexing. With its six distinct tonal levels, it is as hard to master as the country's current politics and history. To sift through the grammar is easy enough but the tonal business is frustrating. One word may have two, three, or even four completely different meanings depending upon the pitch and stress you use. There is a well-known and true story of Robert McNamara's difficulty with the language on his frequent visits to Saigon. He likes to make a small pleasantry to his Vietnamese audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately his aides...