Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imminent death-or dismal years on a kidney machine-he agreed to what was then still a highly experimental treatment: replacement of his dying kidneys with one donated by his twin brother. Now, 17 years later, John Riteris is one of the longest survivors of what is a major unsung success story of contemporary medicine: kidney transplants...
...Festival, she has been conducting all manner of choral works-Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and this past weekend a potpourri of Lerner and Loewe. Although Hillis is also music director of the nearby Elgin Symphony Orchestra, she might be called an unsung heroine: her principal job is to ready her chorus for other maestros. She founded her group 19 years ago at Fritz Reiner's invitation. Today the Hillis sound-vibrant, precise, enormous-has become an indispensable element of the famed Solti sound, notably at events like Sir Georg...
...These unsung and almost unknown "limners" are not great, and they certainly lack technical skill (the grace of lace seems to be beyond Chandler's competence). But they have a distinctive quality that has something to do with the fact that they have not seen the classics of the Renaissance, that their heritage comes from sign painters for taverns rather than salon painters for courts. They (and their sitters) want a likeness that conveys how ordinary Americans live, what manner of people they are -prosperous but plain, not elegant but confident. Such elements may not survive either...
SUNDAY RIVER: Sunday River is another unsung mountain that is at least worth trying. It claims to have a vertical drop of 1500 ft. (under the 2000 ft. plus of the giants, but larger than most in the East) and gets a lot of snow because of its proximity to the Mt. Washington Valley. For Harvard students, there is one more attractive feature: If you're wondering what to do with the extra week of vacation in January (5-11), it just happens to be half-price week for anyone sporting Massachusetts...
...that is something of which the unsung heros of Harvard's flight to the top of the Ivies are--deservedly--very proud...