Word: walden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late textile millionaire and art collector Samuel Courtauld. Dark, handsome, intensely -interested in politics, she was attracted by Rab's intelligence and drive. In 1926 they were married. His wife brought Rab wealth, entree into the famous Tory homes of Mayfair, and, eventually, a constituency-Saffron Walden in Essex County, where Courtauld had a country house in which the Butlers now live. From there, in 1929, Rab was elected to Parliament...
...Whose Walden Two is a depressingly serious prescription for communal regimentation, as though the author had read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and missed the point...
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin (Nancy Walker, Louise Carlyle, David Craig; Walden LP). A fetching collection of ten off-beat tunes with lyrics ranging from innocence to sophistication. Only three are by Ira's brother George; the others are by Vernon Duke, Kurt Weill, Aaron Copland, Jerome Kern, Arthur Schwartz...
...Carnegie Music Hall stage with military precision, and sang eleven brief world premieres. Hardest-working musician at the festival was Conductor William Steinberg, who spent as many as twelve hours a day rehearsing and leading three orchestral programs. Visiting performers included the Juilliard, New Music and Walden String Quartets, singers Leslie Chabay and Nell Rankin and the U.S. Military Academy Band. Across the footlights were critics from as far away as California and England...
...Saffron Walden, Essex, England...