Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great lesser-known works of choral literature is the Requiem of Gabriel Faure. Written near the end of the 19th Century, this hauntingly beautiful score stands apart, almost completely detached from the influences of the late Romantic era. It is a brooding, restless piece, characterized by tentative, unresolved progressions, chromatic exploration, repeated figures, and a limited but unusual harmonic scheme. Above all it illustrates Faure's extremely delicate feeling for both line and texture, his carefully balanced sense of structure and climax...
Dean Monro will break slightly with Harvard tradition in the near future when he moves into his "auxiliary quarters" in Adams House. For many years the Dean of the College has had a room in the Yard where he could go to avoid the continual press of phone calls, meetings and so forth, but Monro decided this year that he would have his quarters in a House, where he would be closer to the majority of the student body...
...varsity wrestling team will close out a season of disappointments and near-misses this afternoon at New Haven against a strong Yale squad that must rate as a heavy favorite...
...groups also plans to sponsor a symposium in the near future on the political, military, and economic problems of Central Europe. Each of the six clubs will invite one or more distinguished experts in the field to address the symposium...
...streets of cloudy La Paz (alt. still 11,900 ft.) were in a turmoil, American officials were reported in hiding near the capital, pre-peregrination of personnel by plane from La Paz. Meanwhile, lordly Luce was still "unavailable for comment" in his 40th-floor office in the Time-Life Building in Manhattan's monument to money, Rockefeller Center...