Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year's Charles Eliot Norton lecturer was Edwin Muir, the Scottish poet and critic. His general topic was "The Estate of Poetry." In the preceding years the lectureship was held by T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost and Igor Stravinsky...
...Walter Piston's 5th Symphony; Mozart's "Paris" Symphony, Schumann's 4th Symphony, and part of a Beethoven Quartet played by the strings. Today at 8:30 p.m. Michael Rabin, violinist, will make his Boston debut tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., in Symphony Hall. His program includes Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, Prokofiev's Sonata, and Briten's Waltz...
...silver ladder to his jewel-encrusted throne, and just as the royal backside touched the gold-brocaded pillow waiting to receive it, thousands upon thousands of lights blazed up all over the city. Elephants with gilded toenails lumbered past the prince. Indian regimentals struggled bravely to keep their Scottish bagpipes skirling, while acrobats wheeled and tumbled. One by one Mysore's distinguished citizens approached the throne holding an offering of gold, and the maharaja, his diamond earrings ajangle, tapped the proffered coin to show that he accepted it, but only symbolically...
...began closing in, Britain embarked on an autumn grousing season, picked as its first target a member of the royal family. The victim: bonnie Prince Charles, 7, fresh back in Buckingham Palace after a long Scottish holiday. The question, quickly debated by irritable newspaper readers: Assuming that Charles has a brow, is it high, middle or low? Noting that on his return "the prince's hair was even closer to his eyebrows than usual," London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed...
Leading this year's influx of foreign players is the Business School's Alan Wadell, who was invited to the trial match for likely candidates for the Scottish International side. The other half back will be freshman Don Shojai, a Persian who learned his rugby in England...