Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening in the spring of 1916, Archibald T. (Doc) Davison '06 was conducting a joint rehearsal of the Harvard glee Club and Radcliffe choral Society. After the two groups had finished singing Brahms' "Song of destiny" and the Bach motet, "I Wrestle and Pray," Davison triumphantly pulled open the stage curtains revealing Karl Mack, the awesome conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Muck, delighted with the performance, invited the groups to sing the pieces with the orchestra at the 1917 Pension Concert in Symphony Hall...
...Christmas carol service of 1913, President Lowell was stunned to see Radcliffe girls singing with the choir. He told Davison afterwards. "The University choir is perfectly adequate for the Chapel. I trust you will not invite the young ladies from Radcliffe to sing in the carol services again...
...this simple expression of the obvious touched off extraordinary reactions. Asian anti-Communists were notably cheered by Dulles' speech. The anti-Communist Hong Kong newspaper, Sing Tao Jih Pao, said that Dulles brought "joy and comfort." Other Asian voices recalled the Korean truce, the Indo-China truce and the Tachen Islands evacuation, and said that Dulles' announcement on the offshore islands between Formosa and the mainland indicated that the U.S. had finally made up its mind to take a stand. The Dulles sentence that most impressed Asians: "If the non-Communist Asians ever come to feel that their...
...died predicting that in the Americas, "Ecuador will be the convent, Colombia the university, Venezuela the barracks." He knew his countrymen well; soldiers have ruled Venezuela through most of its history. Many of them were from the high western Andes, where to celebrate their own character, the mountain men sing...
...loving and leaving it. As ever, Housman is chiefly the laureate of youth. (Critic Cyril Connolly once pointed out that in 63 poems, Housman used the word "lad" 67 times.) If few of the lines from the Manuscript are memorable, they are all refreshingly unobscure, and the quatrains sing...