Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music is spare. It also manages to be both intricate and delicate. The vocal line is continually pulverized and reassembled-hurled at the listener in fragments, sent darting and swooping with almost maniacal power. And behind it much of the time, the brasses chatter, the winds and strings flow and stretch and blend into an uneasy harmony. The sense of unease, in fact, is what gives strength to the score, suggesting not lack of control but a roiling dramatic energy...
...separate operetta tradition into which Rodgers moved after Hart's death led him into partnership with the operetta lyricist Oscar Hammerstein. Characteristics of the realistic musical comedy tradition, stemming from John Gay's Beggar's Opera and similar' works, include a selection of bouncy tunes that require no great vocal prowess to sing, a comic plot that may be either broadly farcical or almost tragic (as in Pal Joey), and a somewhat bawdy story line...
Ronald C. Perera '62 will receive the Francis Boott prize, $250, for his composition in concerted vocal music...
Harvard greets another political season: H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, has apparently won much of the Faculty; Edward J. McCormack has great Law School strength, some Faculty support, and a small "advisory group"; and Edward M. Kennedy '54 can claim a tiny but vocal backing...
...most vocal of the anti-expansion Faculty members was Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House. Considering the issue from the point of view of the Houses, Perkins said that there were 250 too many upperclassmen at present. If the College adds a tenth House, Perkins felt, it should be used to remove this many students from the existing buildings. He said that no House should have more than 400 students, in any case; and that the "esprit de corps" of the students would suffer if enrollment rose higher...