Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listen closely in Boston's Symphony Hall these days, you can sometimes hear a shy "yeah, yeah, yeah" from the fiddle section, as that master Fiedler, Arthur, 69, leads the proper Boston Pops in a bouncy, 90-man rendition of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, the orchestra's sleeper hit of the season. How does the top pop get in the mood for the mop-top hop? It's very simple. He puts on his thinking...
...president of Reed College; James Tobin, first marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, who is a professor of economics at Yale and a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors; and Cleveland Amory, president of the CRIMSON and secretary of his class, who wrote The Proper Bostonians and is a commentator on American social life
...Needles, Calif., Adams, 57, who bears a striking resemblance to the original "Desert Fox," German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, explained: "There are lots of things we try to accomplish in an exercise like this. It's the first time we've been able to get a proper training area for the armored divisions for ten or twelve years now-where they will encounter the tactical and maintenance problems they would find in a real combat operation. We want to do all the things you're supposed to be able to do in combat. There...
...ballroom of London's Dorchester Hotel was crammed with stuffed beavers, scarlet-coated Mounties, feathered Indians, and R.A.F. trumpeters announcing the roast beef. Moist-eyed press lords bawled Happy Birthday to You and Land of Hope and Glory. All of which seemed only proper for a party given by Roy Thomson, the Canadian-born press lord who owns more newspapers than anyone else, for Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, another Canadian-born press lord, who long since established himself as one of journalism's greats...
Since the work was commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, it was only right and proper that Aaron Copland should entitle it Music for a Great City-diplomatically leaving the city's precise locale to the imagination of his audience. But Copland had no more than struck the downbeat at his new work's premiere last week when it was obvious to everyone in the packed house at Royal Festival Hall just what city they were hearing about. Great City is an unmistakable evocation of Manhattan. It might well be titled "An American in New York...