Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharp contrast to Scarlatti's simplicity were the shifting moods of Gabriel Faure's Pellas and Melisande, composed as incidental music to the Maeterlinck dramatic poem. Biss achieved a good variety of sonorities in the four richly orchestrated movements. In the Prelude the orchestra sounded rich and as one unit; at other times, as in the second movement, subdued violins contrasted sharply with pizzicati in the celli and wood-wind solos. The dance-like quality attained in the third movement was excellent. The music lost direction, however, in the Marche Funebre, when Biss had to struggle to keep the dotted...
Among the favorite targets of her Astorisms were fellow politicians, her fellow rich ("The only thing I like about them is their money"), Communists, Socialists, Nazis, Yankees, liquor manufacturers, newspapers (her husband's family owned two), antifeminists, the cult of the Common Man. It was idealism, not malice, that propelled her bricks and bons mots. She scolded Stalin for "shooting your enemies, and that sort of thing," scorned the late Joe McCarthy to his face, belittled the Vanderbilts as parvenus: "The Astors skinned skunks a century before the Vanderbilts worked ferries...
...Peruvian miracle," and by all odds it is one of Latin America's brightest success stories. In 1950, imaginative Peruvian entrepreneurs started netting the immense schools of anchovy in coastal waters and processing the small silvery fish into fish meal, a high-protein poultry and livestock food. So rich was the harvest and so great the demand that plants went up all along the coast. Today, fish meal is the country's biggest industry, and Peru has risen from nowhere to No. 2 rank (behind Japan) among fishing nations...
...industrial machinery and helicopters, sold 44% of his stock to such U.S. investors as Morgan Guaranty Trust and Yale University when German bankers refused to finance further expansion. Goergen lived like the entrepreneur he was. His suburban Düsseldorf villa, ransacked by police for evidence, is filled with rich rugs, works of art and salons the size of tennis courts...
Eric L. Heyworth '67, sculpture, and James L. Bryan '65 and Richard P. Rogers '67, photography, won $50, Susan W. Rich '64 and Peter C. Brooks '66, in painting, and Warren B. Krupshaw '65 and Paul W. Williams '65, in photography, received honorable mentions...