Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...originally as a pianist--but at the tender age of six, he quit "since I didn't like to practice." Five years later, he took up the oboe and developed great virtuosity, playing in the Woodrow Wilson High School orchestra and band, plus "a few college orchestras." For two summers, he occupied first oboe position at Interlachen, famed music camp in Michigan--"my love of music derived from my experience there"--and after his freshman year at Harvard, he attended the Eastman Conservatory for a summer. "I then had great doubts about the value of a University versus a conservatory...
...their park benches in the sunny harbor on Florida's Gulf Coast, residents of St. Petersburg watched for a sign of fall. One day last week it came: the obituary space in the St. Petersburg Times (circ. 100,225) rose from the summer normal of two columns to five...
...American is threatening to cut worldwide fares on its own next summer, and BOAC is ready to extend lower fares to British colonies around the world. IATA has until the end of March to hammer out a compromise. If it fails, the organization may break up as fares fall...
...opening words of this book-"How can you stand it?"-bear witness to Author McCarthy's candor. She itemizes the disadvantages in which Florence is rich: the noise, the occasional rudeness, the oppressive summer heat, the lack of nighttime pleasures, the daytime drabness. It is true, she says, that because of the frightening traffic, "Many of the famous monuments have become, quite literally, invisible, for lack of a spot from which they can be viewed with safety." And it is maddeningly true that "As for the museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal...
Some reduction of suite capacity took place over the summer, but not enough to provide the "one study-bedroom per student" ideal proposed last spring. Further deconversion will be necessary, certainly, in Mather Hall, which becomes part of Quincy House next year. Either Mather is deconverted and becomes more attractive to Quincy juniors and seniors, or it becomes a "dumping ground" for sophomores or for scholarship students attracted by lower prices...