Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a time when Audience meant a twenty-four page poetry magazine peddled on newsstands and street-corners from Cahaly's to Massachusetts Avenue. In those days it was written by and for the Cambridge community...
...Festival's final evening featured a concert of two works "written for the out-of-doors," played by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Richard Burgin. On the Festival stage 13 wind-players performed Mozart's Serenade in B-flat (K. 361). The performance went fairly well, but showed several signs of insufficient rehearsal (in the first minuet, the bassoonist even played his entire solo one bar ahead of everyone else...
Ghost Writer. In Augusta, Ga., Merchant Sam Bruce made a quick phone call to a bank, learned that it was quite all right to cash a check written by Blue Monday of Dead Man's Alley, Langley...
...years Gulbenkian's secretary. In Mr Five Per Cent, Biographer Hewins relies on the even-tempered viewpoint of Gulbenkian's only son. Nubar. now 62 and described as a flamboyantly bearded and monocled devotee of fox hunts, orchids and Rolls-Royces. Both books are unevenly written and a shade hero-worshipful. What emerges from each is a curiously fascinating bifocal vision that combines moments of startling intimacy with impersonal middle-distance reporting of Middle Eastern oil developments...
...tomb of a dead society. In his introduction, Lord David Cecil (The Young Melbourne) talks of a "masterpiece" and describes certain passages as among "the most beautiful in all modern English literature." While the trilogy plainly fails to live up to this exaggerated billing, it remains a well-written, well-crafted work. Another of the Stately Tomes of England has been thrown open to the public...