Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write to script." That sort of remark annoys Jerry Goldsmith. Says he: "There are damn few composers alive or deceased who have had the opportunity we have had to experiment with atonality and counterpoint." Next month Goldsmith will perform his themes from The Wind and the Lion, The Blue Max and The Waltons in London's Royal Albert Hall...
...centers round the country. It also became the model 50 years later for the mass production of watches. The fine, precise machine tools used by watchmakers to create the cheap timepieces that eventually sold for a dollar were directly descended from the Whitney musket factory. By 1876 the American wind-up alarm clock had been invented at the Seth Thomas Clock Co. in Connecticut. The morning would never be the same again...
...four years will be marked by a profound lack of interest in the administration. But sometime or another you may have a gripe with the University. Whether the problem be an unjustified tuition raise or a simple room change, if it involves bending the rules then you'll probably wind up in Massachusetts or University Halls, the homes of the Harvard administration. And when you get inside it pays to know who has the power to bend them...
...musician more inclined to the fraternization of a large group, there are two orchestras, the University band (composed of a concert wind ensemble and marching band), and a 20-member jazz band. The various vocal organizations include the Harvard Glee Club (a traditional men's chorus of about 75 which appears occasionally with women's college choruses to perform a standard mixed chorus repertoire), the Collegium Musicum, which will perform Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony this year, the University church choir, the Radcliffe Choral Society, a newly formed women's chorus, the Krokodiloes and the Kuumba singers...
...that he could no longer help him, Meeker raced for the Austrian border four miles away. Blood from his wounds made his maps unreadable, and the damaged turbine gulped twice as much fuel as it was supposed to. Luckily, Meeker knew his way through the difficult terrain and dangerous wind currents. He set the chopper down where he had landed many times before, next to a hospital at Traunstein, 15 miles inside West Germany. He had 80 seconds of fuel left...