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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major work yesterday was a new work by Stravinsky, written especially for the Lowell Bells. Stravinsky, having grown tired of the twelve-tone style of composition, was intrigued with the possibilities of a row of sixteen tones and an unpitched bong, and his piece exploits this unique combination fully. The next number, the finale of Haydn's "Toy" Symphony provided an effective contrast. In listening to yesterday's delicate performance, the acute and profound commentary of Leonard Bernstein came to mind: "This 'little' work is actually one of the greatest musical portrayals of the nobility of man, his struggle...
...Inserted into Rule XXII almost unnoticed during the 1949 battle was a gimmick written by Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell. It provides that Rule XXII's cloture provisions "shall not apply to any motion to proceed to the consideration of any motion, resolution, or proposal to change any of the Standing Rules of the Senate." Translation: there can be no cloture on any debate about changing Senate rules, including Rule XXII. It is the Russell Amendment that shapes the strategy of the attack against Rule XXII...
Next to Speaker Sam Rayburn, 76, a 23-termer to whom the Lower House is a home, 14-term Virginia Democrat Howard Worth Smith is the most powerful Congressman. "Judge" Smith, 75, chairman of the Rules Committee, is the wintry-eyed gatekeeper who decides which legislation written by other committees gets to the floor for debate. A venerable stone wall against spending pressures. Smith drew the postelection ire of some 165 members of the new, liberal House, who mumbled direly about changing House rules to cut Smith's power, tripped off some brave headlines about "revolt...
When the history of the 20th century is written, last week is likely to prove one of its watersheds. For in the seven days which spanned 1958 and 1959, Western Europe began to flex its economic muscles for the first time in a decade, and took its biggest step toward unity since the death of Charlemagne 1,145 years...
Whitman currently teaches Greek A, and two Greek literature courses. Alfred heads Humanities 3, "Crisis and the Individual," and lectures in Early English Literature. He has written a play, "Hogan's Goal," on the problems of evil, and man's essential aloneness...