Word: rorem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week she sang song cycles by two great French song writers, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen, and two songs by a 28-year-old Austrian, Gottfried von Einem, five by Paul Bowles and several by such unknown Americans as Everett B. Helm, Bela Wilda and Ned Rorem. Her voice was limited in range and occasionally harsh in the high notes, but as always, her interpretations were intelligent and distinguished by restraint...
...hospital units were still separate entities. In 1938 a medical economist named Clarence Rufus Rorem, using the remnants of a Julius Rosenwald Fund grant, made a survey of the scattered hospitalization plans, sold them on forming a national organization. Rorem is now the $15,000-a-year national director...