Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL was a prodigal master, an adaptive musical fountainhead who composed vast quantities of epic choral dramas, superb operas, incidental and instrumental works. His creative fertility was so prodigious that his 97 volumes of autographs exceed the combined complete works of Bach and Beethoven. Although a contemporary of Corelli, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Telemann. Handel beggared their combined achievements with his limitless genius. Yet while the scope of Bach, Handel's only contemporary equal, is now fully grasped, the boundless wealth of Handel has been reduced to one or two operatic arias, a couple of organ concertos, the Water...
...ever a man seemed out of place as a professional football coach, it is George Allen. There are a few others like him who never played a game of pro football themselves. But how many of them hold a master's degree in ad ministration from the University of Michigan, or have written four books, or are given to such sublime reflections as: "I am never really happy unless I can get up in the morning and look at an ocean, a lake or a river; I get strength from looking at a moving body of wa ter." None...
...present system of specifying the hours during which women guests may visit students in the Houses by the following rule: "The rooms in the Yard and the Houses are provided to accommodate the students to whom they are assigned. Other overnight occupancy of such room is forbidden." Bruce Chalmers Master of Winthrop House
...pauses, hard memory reflected in her sweet blue eyes. "But I was all wrong! I was being used. I had to cut Sociology classes in order to practice formations. The Band Master shouted at me when I dropped my baton. We were forced to play music we didn't like and we had to cut our hair at neck length, and I know you won't believe this but once we had to form a dollar sign in front of 60,000 people! They tried to make us think we were serving the cause of good music and making people...
...that weren't bad enough, on Saturday morning Tempie refused to get on the Band bus for the Minnesota game. The Band Master looked her hard in the eye and asked: "Aren't you going to Minnesota, Miss Drake?" She looked him harder in the eye and shouted: "Heck no, I won't go!" Whereupon the Band Master put her in handcuffs and sent her to Minnesota under the guard of two tuba players. "What they did to me," she says, "was forced induction...