Word: mater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kallinikoff-Symphony #2 in A minor (Per); Bach-Chromatic Fantasy & Fuge in D minor (Per); Pergolesi-Stabat Mater (D); Mozart-Quartet #14 in G major (C); Bernstein-Age of Anxiety (C); Handel-Trio Sonata in E for Flute, Violin, Bassoon, Harpsichord (HSLP...
Referring to Thompson's alma mater, which banned football, one heckler in the crowd asked, "Mr. Thompson, what do they do at Chicago on Saturday afternoons?" Again, Thompson's reply was ready: "I guess they sleep...
...Oedipus complex about Alma Mater has long nourished English letters. From the days of Thomas Hughes (Tom Brown's Schooldays), almost the first things heard out of an English writer are usually the half-strangulated noises of one noosed in an old school tie. As an obsessive theme the Old School has no counterpart in U.S. fiction, unless it is the Home Town and the shouts of the boys who cry Wolfe...
...Cornell grad, I was pleased as punch to learn that my old Alma Mater outdoes Harvard in at least one thing: the teaching of modern foreign languages...
...future was not in pro football, and I wanted very much to stay in the coaching profession. Playing for the Eagles would have kept me away from some of my team's games, so I decided to stop playing." A few years later he returned to Gettysburg, his alma mater, as an assistant coach of football...