Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of an American-looking name, Frank Martin was born in 1890 in Switzerland. After winning the usual quota of academic musical prizes, around 1925 he began to experiment with the rhythms of new music, and five years later made contact with Schoenberg's 12-tone techniques. It was an elastic collision: "I may say that, while I came under Schoenberg's influence, I opposed him with all my musical sensibility." Thus, in Le Vin Herbe, a dramatic oratorio on the Tristram legend first performed in 1942, he combined 12-tone series with chordal sequences, and in his passion oratorio...
...nine vocal soloists filled their parts with all the life they could hold, and these soloists accounted for what success there was to the evening. (Unfortunately, the English translation by George Barker lay very poorly with the vocal line, in spite of numerous small amendments; the accents on "simplicity," for example, fell so that the word sounded like "simple city.") Eve (Mary Judd) was not in the least forced even in high passages, and performed the best lyrics of the work. The devils, sung by Howard Fried, David Griffith (an undergraduate in the College), William Shores, and John Fiorito, made...
Pringle's pool record came in the 200-yard breast stroke, the next-to-last event of the meet. In spite of the effects of winning the individual medley and the 200-yard backstroke earlier in the contest, he pressed on to a brilliant 2:18.1 clocking, breaking the record of 2:20.0 set last year by Princeton great Gardiner Green. Pringle's win, with a second place by Porky Pitts, insured the Crimson victory before the start of the final relay. A second by Bill Chadsey in the individual medley gave the Crimson that event as well...
...little patience for schooled techniques. "What is the Method?" she says. "I don't know what it is. Acting is acting. You know what to do. My mother always quoted a director who said, 'Damn it, don't think, act!' " But in spite of herself, Romy Schneider thinks a great deal about her work, particularly about how difficult it is "to be a real human being in life" as well as on the stage. "Yes," she finishes with an ambivalent grin, "to make love well is hardest...
...spite of strong opposition to the new policy from the History and Government Departments, there has still been no official indication from University Hall whether any "clarification" or other alteration of the new policy will be discussed at the January Faculty meeting...