Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover article on General Creighton Abrams [April 19], if written 100 years ago, could almost word for word describe General Grant-tactics, strategy, personality-even the cigar, the horsemanship, and the West Point class standing. Grant is still probably the greatest general ever to wear an American uniform. It took him one year after achieving command to end the Civil War. It took only six months to ensure the re-election of a troubled President who at that stage thought himself a failure, and who now is regarded by most as our greatest American...
...Fifth by Beethoven. In his concert days, when he was not singing along, Gould liked to conduct himself with whichever hand he could free at any moment. So it is not surprising that he has finally got around to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The piano transcription was written by Keyboard Demon Franz Liszt, meaning that both hands are too busy for shenanigans. Gould plays it in respectful dedication to both Liszt and Beethoven. The Fifth is largely free of Liszt's frequent pianistic bombastics and remarkably faithful to the original-save for an occasional missing dissonance. "Liszt removed...
...This article was originally written for "MBA Magazine," a national journal for business students and faculty...
Kahn has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since three days after he graduated from Harvard College in 1937. He has written 13 books--none of which has sold particularly well--and countless articles for the New Yorker and several other well known magazines. Since October, Kahn has been in Cambridge, extensively researching a book about Harvard which will probably appear first as a series of articles in the New Yorker early...
...great many men have written a great many books about Harvard. The fourth floor of Lamont Library is flooded with them--ranging from dull historical tracts which always end up imitating Samuel Eliot Morrison to mildly funny accounts of what it is like to be a Harvard man. A heavy dose of mediocre anthologies and lousy college novels falls in between. William Bentinck-Smith, a classmate and friend of Kahn's, described the situation accurately more than a decade ago when he wrote: "In almost the same proportion as Harvard men are no different from other men, so are Harvard...