Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state for a delay, the Council was joined yesterday by Edward J. McCormack, former attorney general and now a candidate for governor. Barney Frank '61, assistant senior tutor in Winthrop House, read the Council telegrams that McCormack sent to Gov. John A. Volpe and DPW commissioner Francis W. Sargent...
...Douglas, Joseph Conrad, and he often stayed up half the night playing chamber music with such pickup partners as Pablo Casals and Jacques Thibaud. When World War I came, he went to Paris and served for a time as a translator for the Allies. Then his friend John Singer Sargent introduced him to a wealthy patroness who arranged for him to play in Spain. He needed a passport, so the lady wangled forged papers through a friend who was the mistress of the Russian ambassador...
This will be the second time that Woodworth has visited the Royal College. He studied conducting there under Sir Malcolm Sargent in 1927, while on a Paine Fellowship from Harvard...
...must speak for himself on this. I can only say that none of my fellow Niemans have shown any signs of intimidation during the past five months. As for our alleged "fraternal complacency," it is conjured up as the program's mood under Lyons, then as neatly evaporated under Sargent. Ardery's assertions in neither case automatically give the moods life. No evidence is advanced to suggest either In fact, they did not and do not exist...
Ardery suggests one or two good points, for which he deserves credit for their advancement if not their originality. Help with housing would be appreciated, as would more money for the married Fellows (although the bachelors might well raise the question of fairness). But Dwight Sargent most strongly does encourage "imaginative and original study plans," conducting the first group meeting of the year in such a way that the Fellows are exposed to a dozen different suggestions on how to use the year. The underlying assumption is that the Nieman Fellows are adult enough to select those courses and programs...