Word: mcphee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...modern composers, is a lifelong student and frequent composer of Asian music, has long ranked as the leading exponent of integrating Western and Eastern music, a cause that has attracted the interest of a host of modern composers such as Alan Hovhannes, Benjamin Britten, Lou Harrison, Colin McPhee, Pierre Boulez. Says Cowell: "No single inherited style, no single acquired technique, will enable a composer to live in the 20th century. We must integrate...
SOMETIMES he felt like that twelve-year-old boy who spent nine days and nights at the fair, sleeping in one pavilion or another and scrounging enough money for food by picking coins out of the fountains. But Writer John McPhee spent ten days there and only part of the nights and he ate-as the editorial business manager will discover-without dipping a finger in a fountain. In fact, he ate his way through such delights as soft-shelled crab on a bun, walnut fried Boston sole, partridge with grapes of Almeria, banana dogs, smoked eel of the river...
...McPhee's mission was to do what no one else had done about the New York World's Fair. It had been previewed, opened, featured, highlighted and was even beginning to produce its own cliches. But there had been no intensive critique of it in the sense that, say, a theater critic reviews a play. McPhee and Researcher Nancy Gay Faber went to and from Flushing Meadow by car, subway, train and hydrofoil, walked and rode through the grounds, stood in the longest lines, went to literally every pavilion, park and exhibit. One day McPhee took...
Drawing on Kennedy's biography and on his own impressions, Show Business Writer John McPhee went to work on his cover story about the remarkable girl who impersonates the remarkable Fanny Brice. Meanwhile, Senior Editor A. T. Baker wanted to know what ever happened to Nicky Arnstein, Fanny Brice's former gangster husband, who was last heard of years ago somewhere in Los Angeles. TIME'S Hollywood Reporter Joyce Haber mobilized the help of three police departments, the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the intelligence unit of the Treasury Department, lawyers, nightclub owners, columnists and several helpful hoodlums...
McPherson will be on the mound today when the Huskies meet the Crimson at Kindlestick Park, and he'll have plenty of support. All-New England second baseman Neil McPhee (.347 last year) has moved over to fill in at shortstop; Paul Lombardi (.313), an outfielder last year takes over at second. With Captain Jim Keening (.306) at third, the Huskies should have the best-hitting infield around...