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Word: theres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schumann's Konzertstueck for four horns and orchestra, Op. 86, was another sort of problem, for while it was good to hear this interesting, energetic piece, it was plain that the supremely confident soloists required had not been found, the horn being a notoriously intractable beast. There was volume, but...

Author: By Edgar Murray, | Title: Cambridge Civic Symphony | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

During the past half century the Bullard family has endowed several departments and institutions of the University, especially the Medical School. There is a Bullard Professorship of Neuropathology at the Medical School, which was established by Louisa Norton Bullard and her children in memory of her husband, William Story Bullard...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: Estate Gives $1.5 Million For Forestry, Neurology | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

In his concluding address as President of Radcliffe College last night, Wilbur K. Jordan spoke on the life of Ann Radcliffe, the seventeenth century English philantropist for whom the College is named. Although gaps exist in the historical documentation of her life, Jordan said, there is abundant evidence that Ann...

Author: By Penelope C. Kline, | Title: Jordan Finishes 16 Years as President | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF Music, by Marc Pincherle (220 pp.; Reynal; $18), is a bold undertaking by a noted French musicologist: a history of Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gifts Between Covers | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

THE SQUARE, by Marguerite Duras (118 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; papperback, $1.45). A nursemaid meets a man in a village square; they talk, while the child plays, of how it is possible to go on living. The man travels about selling five-and-dime notions from a suitcase. He is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surface Without Depth | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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