Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surcharge." Mills walked toward the elevator, the reporters trailing in an expectant pack behind him. "The ceiling," he added, tossing off billions, "has been fixed at $180.1." Thus one of the most important legislative battles of recent years neared its climax. In the process, Lyndon Johnson, once the master of Congress, suffered the most decisive and humiliating rebuff of his presidency from his former colleagues on Capitol Hill...
...More Freeloading. His wife's death cost Wallace much more than Lurleen's loyalty. While she was Governor, Wallace had been unquestioned master of Alabama, free to conscript dozens of administration cronies to work full time in his campaign; 16 state troopers shielded him from hecklers when he went speechifying. Now, with campaign cash dwindling and April's Gallup poll showing his nationwide popularity down four points to a meager 10%, those days are numbered. Alabama's ambitious new Governor Albert Brewer, 39, is expected to fire state jobholders who stay away from work to stump...
...there is still work to be done here in translating the sentiment for an Afro-American studies into a workable program. The mechanics of setting up a degree committee should not prove difficult; the CEP earlier this year discussed a proposal by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, to establish such committees for any student with a legitimate plan for concentration which fell outside the range of normal Harvard fields...
...Concerto Contest, gave an astonishingly mature performance which was first-class in all respects. His tightly sealed conception projected a powerful sense of unity. It also preserved the concerto's familiar yet still voktile interplay of traditional restraints and puckish invention. Unhampered by technical difficulties, Mr. Kalam was the master of every phrase. By choosing not to extend dynamics to the upper limits, he achieved the ideal of every performing artist--the illusion of complete control with power to spare. The orchestra could not help but be influenced by the elegance of Mr. Kalam's playing. With the exception...
Friday night Kirkland House presented free and open to the public--due to the munificence of Master Arthur Smithies--what was probably the most incandescent pair of performers of the entire Cambridge musical season: James Oliver Buswell IV, a sophomore concentrating in Fine Arts who is nonetheless an established professional violinist, and Fernando Valenti, one of the world's most revered, if himself somewhat irreverent, harpsichordists...