Word: pistoning
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...summer camp, John Harbison spent more time perfecting his throw from third base to first than studying music. As a teen-age pianist in Princeton, N.J., he found it more rewarding to play jazz than to work on his classical technique. At Harvard, his teach er, Walter Piston, testing his resolve, advised him: "Under no circumstances should you ever be a composer...
...early '60s, the airline's piston-powered DC4s and DC-6Bs were usually packed with Americans doing Europe on $5 a day. Business continued to boom after the line switched to nonstop jet service, which was still at cut rates. In 1977 Icelandic carried 240,000 passengers. But then came Freddie Laker's Skytrain flights and subsequent price slashing by the major airlines. Budget flyers could now skip both Reykjavik and Luxembourg and still save money. After losses of $15 million last year, Icelandair, its official name since 1979, slashed the number of transatlantic flights from...
Deregulation has also fostered the fast-growing commuter airlines that now provide services to airports abandoned by the majors and not picked up by the regionals. The commuter airlines, such as New Haven Airways and Pennsylvania's Ransome Airlines, generally fly turbo prop or piston-engine aircraft, seating five to 25 people, and shuttle passengers to regional or hub airports...
...guest soloist with numerous orchestras, following his professional New York debut in 1968. He has performed such staples of the viola repertory as Berlioz' Harold in Italy, and in 1976 was soloist in a New York performance of the Viola Concerto by the late Harvard professor Walter Piston. Two years ago he gave the premiere of a work by a Black composer from Ghana, Samuel Johnson, with an orchestra led by Black conductor Karl Hampton Porter...
...though nobody gave him any business after that day in 1955 when he stood on the steps of the county court house and vowed that the Kanawha County schools would dawn well integrate; two years later his son Thomas Scott Bell was born and Ralph still slept with a piston under his blanket, the same one he would use to blow his brains out with, six months to the day after taking out a $250,000 insurance policy that would send his own son to Cambridge, six months being the required time period before suicide could be considered a legitimate...