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Less impressive was the William Byrd Suite arranged by Gordon Jacob. Byrd's music was written for small groups; his light melodies and whim-ical tempos are either lost or made heavy in the transcription for a band of more than 100 players. Walker did his best to preserve the spirit of Byrd and now and then he succeeded. But in the exposed woodwind passages, which should have been airy, 26 clarinets were far too many...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: The Harvard Band | 10/26/1963 | See Source »

Macmillan's choice was based at least in part on his will, but not on whim. It followed a week-long Conservative Party conference, plus the mysterious Tory ritual by which the visceral wishes of party members, great and small, are gathered, interpreted and closely read for omens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: War of Succession | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...Rheingold of 1962, and even a Martian can appreciate her mellow malt and hops. The show itself is really an animated cartoon that uses live people, chiefly Ray Walston as a professor of anthropology from one of the numerous universities on Mars, lately arrived by saucer. He disappears at whim like Topper, and he sprouts antenna horns that boing amusingly. Younger cats should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Judgment on the New Season | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...poorest Europeans, who learned how to market their produce. Today the Negroes save too little, spend too much, and have developed fewer businesses than any other group. There are also more broken Negro homes-another legacy of slavery, argue the authors, when Negro families were broken up at the whim of their white masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Praise of Pluralism | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...seems incredible that a University which can attract such speakers to its campus cannot provide adequate space for its students to hear them. Sanders Theatre seats 1200 when jammed to capacity. Rindge Tech Auditorium, which seats 1500, is available at the whim of the Cambridge School Committee, which denied it to Barnett and presumably will do the same to Wallace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inner Space | 9/28/1963 | See Source »

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