Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alumni applauded every piece enthusiastically and stood respectfully for the final rendition of "Fair Harvard." Included in the concert were Morse's "Up the Street, March," Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture," Saint-Saene' "The Animals' Carnival, Grand Zoological Fantasia," and "Kid Stuff (A Good-Night Send-off for the Second generation), arranged by Hayman...
...giant diagram a clear picture of the function of each contractor and sub contractor, which ones have to be speeded up to keep the project on schedule, and what the effect of speedups or delays would be on costs. And in a contract recently signed with RCA for the SAINT satellite-inspection system, the Air Force stipulated that RCA gets a bonus if the system is completed on schedule, lower profits if failures mount...
...warmth and weight from T. S. Eliot to Kenneth Patchen. He is not only the Buddha of the beatniks, but Lawrence Durrell asserts that ''American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what he has done." He has been called, or called himself a "saint." "Caliban," "a one-man band," a "Patagonian." As to what Patagonian means in the Miller context, the only source seems to be Poet Karl Shapiro, who introduces this U.S. edition in the characteristic style of the muddled and ecstatic cultist: "What is a Patagonian? I don't know...
...singer who wants to be heard has to shout down the throat of the tuba. But despite such drawbacks, the audience at Manhattan's Xavier Theater last week saw and heard as fine a revival of Gian-Carlo Menotti's stark Greenwich Village drama. The Saint of Bleecker Street, as the opera is likely to receive. What made the production even more surprising was that not one of the professional performers was paid...
...gallery of portraits bathed in the warm glow of idiosyncrasy rather than the cold light of 100% accuracy. The result is an "entertainment" written in the witty and amusing fashion of a male Nancy Mitford. Among the chief sitters: Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Saint Simon, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Louis XIV, Louis XV, John Wesley and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Intellectual and psychological vignettes illuminate the contradictions of ruler and sage. As a bride of 16, Catherine the Great was ignorant of the facts of life, thought the only difference between...