Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe this version. With the jury out of the room, he admonished Kalmbach: "You knew . . . that this money was being used to hush up these people who had been arrested." Kalmbach insisted that he had not. After listening to the Nixon tapes, it seems inconceivable that the jury could miss the real intent of the payments...
...composers. Columbia Records has issued the first four albums of an ambitious new black-composers series. One of the LPs offers Still's Afro-American Symphony (1930), a prismatically scored, blues-flavored gem and, incidentally, the first symphony ever written by a black American. Last week in Jackson, Miss., the only professional black opera company in the U.S., a 3½-year-old group called Opera/South, presented the world premiere of Still's 33-year-old opera A Bayou Legend...
...story is set in the bayous near Biloxi, not too far from Still's birthplace in Woodville, Miss. The young Cajun Bazile falls in love with the spectral Aurore, defying the Cajun stricture against consorting with spirits as evil and punishable by death. The amorous Clothilde, jealous of a love she cannot understand, betrays her beloved to the village priest. Bazile is hanged. At the moment of his death, Bazile's spirit is joined with that of Aurore...
...Johnson didn't complain. He was netting 86 dollars a week--78 after union dues--and that was more money than he'd ever made in his life. He wanted to hang onto his job. He punched in early and punched out late. He didn't miss work. He didn't drink or use drugs. After eight months (which seemed like a long time to him) he got transferred to a slightly better job at the same pay and the same hours...
...Brown has been representative in its Ivy games," he said, bubbling with enthusiasm. "And Harvard is in contention for the Ivy title!" With that kind of buildup, I don't see how anyone would want to miss the game...