Word: roger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ANDERSON: Speaking of newcomers, Joe, I've also got a friend whose acquaintance you haven't yet made. His name's Bateman, and he's the best drinker we've had down here since Roger Williams. He'll be tough to eat, believe...
...ROGER O'BRIEN is miscast as Dick, the would-be stud who steals Kathy away from Bob. He should be a visual foil to Bob--both bigger and better looking, but though O'Brien speaks and moves smoothly, he doesn't have the physical presence to do justice to the part. In contrast, Tony Horowitz as Norman and Diane Sherlock as Shelley are marvelously convincing caricatures. Ethan Dmitrovsky plays Willis the landlord Archie Bunker-style; his dream monologue is the most haunting moment of the play...
Next spring she will present Montezuma by the American composer Roger Sessions. It is a spectacle of formidable musical and technical dimensions that Caldwell has wanted to stage for years. In 1971, just to get the feel of the thing, she went to Mexico and retraced the victory trail of the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez. Last week she was back again, studying the pyramids in Teotihuacan...
...schools we teach Bach, Beethoven and Brahms but nothing that has been composed in the past 70 years,"complains Escot, an assistant professor of music at Wheaton College, Mass. She is appalled at the small number of great American composers of either sex. "Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter to me are gods," she says. "But who else is there in that generation?" Escot believes that in the generation reaching maturity now, there are as many good women composers as there...
...Roger L. Nichols, Given Professor of Microbiology, responded to the University's refusal to deal with the Saudi Arabians by setting up a private corporation of academics to do the public health consulting work the University turned down. The non-profit group, University Associates, included professors affiliated with Harvard, Johns Hopkins University and the American University of Beirut...