Word: oscars
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Berlow and Kilbreth-who conducted their own defense before a courtroom of about 80 supporters-attempted to initiate contempt of court proceedings against President-designate Bok and Oscar Handlin, Warren Professor of American History, for ignoring the defense subpoenas...
Other members of the Administration and Faculty who were served with subpoenas were Donald G. Anderson, chairman of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR): Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government: Archibald Cox '34, University troubleshooter and Williston Professor of Law; and Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, according to an SDS spokesman...
...Sondheim is a spent youth. The son of a wealthy New York dress manufacturer, he literally learned his first lessons in the craft of songwriting at the feet of an old family friend, Oscar Hammerstein II. Stephen was then eleven; Oscar thought his first pubescent musical "terrible?although not without talent." Sondheim proved to be a good learner. He has written the lyrics (and often the music as well) for seven shows, five of which were hits. Only his 1966 musical, Anyone Can Whistle, a precious fable about a smalltown miracle, and 1965's Do I Hear a Waltz? (with...
...OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II. Oscar taught me that a song should be like a little one-act play, with an exposition, a development and a conclusion; at the end of the song the character should have moved to a different position from where he was emotionally at the beginning. This was how Hammerstein and Dick Rodgers revolutionized the American theater. I mean, God knows every opera composer dating back to Monteverdi knew about development, but it was never used in the musical theater...
...just ridiculous. What Oscar knew was that there was music to go with it. The minute that Dick Rodgers' music is added, the whole song has an emotional weight. I really think that Oklahoma! ran seven years on that lyric...