Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern saint can be seen as a more than worthy character in search of a more than worthy author. In Peter Matthiessen, Mexican-American leader Cesar Chavez would seem to have found the perfect biographer. As a novelist (At Play in the Fields of the Lord), Matthiessen has a proven taste for mystics, especially from Latin America. As a naturalist (Wildlife in America), he has shown true indignation at the greedy exploitation of man and nature. Small wonder that in this book he begins by investing Chavez's selfless fight against the California grape growers with vast moral significance...
...With the orchestra's prestige falling apart, it was obvious that new blood was needed, and Leinsdorf's resignation was not too surprising. His successor, William Steinberg of Pittsburgh, came somewhat as a surprise. Pittsburgh was not one of the major orchestras, although Steinberg himself was a man of proven competence. This year, he began his career at the BSO, serving as Music Director and conducting part time while finishing out his tenure at Pittsburgh...
...never showed signs of collapse during the Crimson comeback. To anyone present at the Garden Monday night, the Harvard rally was clearly indicative of the amazing difference between the Crimson when it plays careless, sloppy hockey and the Crimson when it decides to fly. Unfortunately, Harvard has provided no proven method of predicting just when it will shift disguises. And this makes it all the more difficult to assign the Crimson a definite berth in the Eastern rankings with any degree of accuracy...
...additional experiment that was proposed but has since proven unfeasible was to follow the eclipse for an hour in an airplane travelling 2000 miles per hour. "Ground-based studies will give us some kinds of information that could not have been gotten from the plane," Pasachoff said...
George Boizelle has posted times among the top ten nationally this year in both the 200-yard butterfly and the individual medley. He is also a proven competitor in freestyle events and the backstroke...