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...last fall's mock election at the University of Michigan, Nixon defeated Kennedy, though Kennedy easily carried the state. At Indiana, Northwestern and Ohio State, Nixon...
Says Brooklyn's Aaron Copland of Brooklyn's Roger Sessions: "He writes his music for titans." Mainly for that reason, Composer Sessions, 64, enjoys a doubtful distinction in contemporary music: he is more often seen than heard. To make "the music as well known as the name," Northwestern University and the Fromm Music Foundation last week sponsored the first "retrospective one-man exhibition" of Sessions' works. In three days the audience heard ten compositions-or more than half of Sessions' lifetime output...
...Sessions was 26, and cast as an orchestral suite five years later. A dissonant, vigorous work full of shrilly chattering string passages and raucously braying brasses, it gives the effect, as do many of Sessions' works, of the familiar tilted intriguingly out of plumb. Also included in the Northwestern program: the String Quartet No. 2 (1951), a serenely flowing, moderately dissonant work that rarely raises its voice above a grey, enervated note of despair; the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1956), whose stabbing, fragmented salvos of sound hit the listener like an icy shower...
...million, put up 300 new college buildings, and opened five new campuses from North Carolina to Alaska. The empire under varying degrees of Methodist control has 205,500 students in 136 schools, including 77 colleges, 21 junior colleges, 12 seminaries and 8 universities (American, Boston, Denver, Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Southern Methodist, Syracuse...
...years, on and off, the U.S. and Canada had been talking about a treaty providing for cooperative development of the Columbia River, and the failure to agree on such a treaty had slowed up the growth of the U.S. Northwest. Example: the Libby Dam project in northwestern Montana had been stalled for a decade because Canada was reluctant to see a U.S. dam built on the Kootenai River, a Columbia tributary that rises in Canada, crosses into the U.S., then swings northward across the border again...