Word: programers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discipline requires strict accounting of first-quarter funds before second-quarter funds can be released. But Laotians, not accustomed to American accountants' techniques, were slow to comply with all the forms, despite lengthy pleas from Vientiane. Rather than see the whole program collapse before the rainy season stops all work in June, ICA Mission Chief Daly Lavergne fortnight ago decided on his own to release more funds without a Washington go-ahead. Hearing of this, Premier Phoui grinned with relief...
...program was provocative: four works by four U.S. composers, three of whom are little known. Bennington College's Louis Calabro was represented by the premiere of his Sonata for Piano; Brooklyn College's Josef Alexander offered his Songs for Eve; Hall Overton, composition teacher, presented his String Quartet. To round it off and set a frame of reference, Princeton's well-known Composer Roger Sessions was there with his Sonata for Violin...
...concert was not over at the curtain. A key to Director Polikoff s program is a postconcert forum in which the audience is invited to fire questions at the composers. In preceding concerts, audiences have pulled no punches: "What does it mean?" "Why doesn't it have any melody?" "Do you have to make it sound so complicated?" From the blunt questions, Polikoff hopes everybody learns something. Last week's haymaker: "With whom are you trying to communicate?" Replied fiercely complex Composer Sessions: "With anyone who will listen. All the composer asks is a willing...
...ranked school system. Justin Brierly, coordinator of college counseling for Denver schools, summed it up in a way that other schoolmen might well note: "Bill had the natural talent, and our system has two things to offer: early detection of gifted students and a suitable and intensified program to provide them with full development...
...Teaching, done mostly in Greek, follows roughly the curriculum prescribed by the nation's Ministry of Education, including instruction in the Greek Orthodox religion. But the school is not an austere learning factory, as most Greek academies are. President Davis has spread the six-year Greek secondary-school program through seven years, has planned courses to goad students to independent thought, promoted an unheard-of give and take in classrooms. Davis will leave the school and Successor Rice with an encouraging financial boost; fortnight ago the Ford Foundation announced that it would give Athens College $250,000 for scholarships...