Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bach Society showed what an excellent accompanying group it can be. Mr. Lazar can make his orchestra glisten like a winter day in Vermont; they are immediate and keen. The winds, always good, played with unusual elegance, and in the dialogue between the solo and accompanying oboes in the final allegro assai, it was sometimes difficult to distinguish Mr. Still from the Society's James Weiss and Eliot Noyes...
...remarks were less ecstatic. "Nebulous and rather complicated." sniffed Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "A do-it-yourself kit for every farm commodity." hooted Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois: the executive branch "could completely divest itself of all responsibility." Argued Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken: "If farm groups can write their own tickets, some will ask: Why not let labor or industrial groups do the same thing?" Moving Again. The President's farm message was of a piece with other bits of farm policy that had slipped...
...Calvin Coolidge, in his Autobiography, recalls his taking of the oath of office at his father's home in Vermont after the death of President Warren G. Harding: "The Bible, which had belonged to my mother, lay on the table at my hand. It was not officially used as it is not the practice in Vermont or Massachusetts to use a Bible in connection with the administration of the oath." Whether Rutherford B. Hayes actually had his hand on the Bible is obscure, but the artist's picture of him at his inauguration done from a photograph...
Murdock is a Knight of the Royal Order of the North Star of Sweden, and holds honorary degrees from Upsala University, Harvard, Trinity, Middlebury, Bucknell and Vermont...
...history of the theater actually begins with an evangelical minister, William Miller, who saw the light while still a deputy sheriff in Putney, Vermont--God came to him one day as he was flogging a prisoner. Taking off immediately for Boston, Miller gathered a congregation about him and declared that...