Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flame and famine across Russia in 1917. He had outjangled Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in his pagan Scythian Suite, startled St. Petersburg's musical society with the thudding energy of his piano pieces. When he wanted to-as he showed in his Classical Symphony -he could write with sweet simplicity. But he seldom cared to prove it. "I believe," he wrote, "that it is a mistake to favor musical simplification...
...recent years, his health was poor, but he continued to write music. He was no longer the daring musical revolutionary, but his "realistic" Seventh Symphony (first performed last month) and his 1951 oratorio, On Guard for Peace, put him firmly back in the graces of the Kremlin. Last week, as Joseph Stalin lay unconscious, cerebral hemorrhage brought death to Sergei Prokofiev at 61. In a Moscow all but preoccupied with the death of the dictator, thousands filed into Composers Hall, where his body lay in state, to pay a tribute to the Soviet Union's finest composer...
While in Juarez, Mexico in 1909, Marin met famed Rebel Leader Pancho Villa, who asked him to help run his revolution. Martin worked for Villa for seven years, taught the illiterate rebel how to write his name in the sand with a stick, and became so close to him that Villa called him "My Boy (one of the three English phrases he knew). In 1916, when Mexican government forces were closing in on their stronghold, Martin escaped, taking Villa's wife and children to New Orleans, thence to safety in Cuba...
...Albany, N. Y., the State Division of Employment received a terse memo from a New York unemployment insurance office in regard to a claimant: "Change of name: old name: 'X.' New name: 'John Smith.' Reason: he learned to write...
...write to express my regret at the somewhat misleading form of your headline, "Bundy Proposes Individual Treatment of Investigations," in this morning's CRIMSON, Since Harvard, under the leadership of Provost Buck, has already adopted a policy of "individual treatment," I could hardly have been proposing it. I simply explained in answer to a question, why I believe this to be the right course, and in making my explanation I specifically called attention to the fact that it is the course Harvard is already following...