Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liked the Braves since they got rid of Gene Conley, Bill Bruton, Johnny Logan, Del Crandall, Milwaukee, and Eddie Mathews, but they're going to finish second this year. Clete Boyer is to third base as Mazeroski is to second and Hank Aaron and the Brave Bats make up for an invisible pitching staff. The Giants have Willie Mays, Juan Marichal, and the uncanny ability to never finish below third...
...shedding its all-Baroque image, the BSO performed a quarter of works representing every major stylistic period from the Baroque to the twentieth century. The program consisted of the instrumental sinfoniae from three J.S. Bach contatas, Wagner's Sieg-fried Idyll in its original instrumentation, Quiet City by Aaron Copland, and Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. It was the most ingenious program assembled at Harvard in the past several years. These works, all scored for a chamber orchestra, were ostensibly tailor-made for the Bach Society's diminutive instrumental forces...
...Aaron Copland's Quiet City (1940), the Bach Society had the advantage of two fine wind players. Alan Pease's trumpet was as "nervous" as is called for in the score, and Fred Fox's English horn was properly dark and seductive. The strings handled their part with a minimum of painful intonation and a good deal of taste. All in all Quiet City was the most successful of the works attempted, evocative where the others were dutiful...
...Ginger's apotheosis of the gallant American White Collar Girl won her an Oscar. In Magnificent Doll, she plays Dolley Madison. Forced into a role that is above her head and a script that is beneath her, she utters Dolley's immortal words to the jailed traitor Aaron Burr (David Niven): "I hope all this will make you think, Aaron...
...Hagar (David's grandfather) had made it from Warsaw to Boston Light; Aaron had made it from Boston to Harvard Yard; in more than the journeyman's sense David would be expected to make it to the top of Beacon Hill...