Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost from the outset, the collegiate arrangement proved troublesome. In the election of 1800, Democrat-Republican Thomas Jefferson drew the same number of electoral votes (73) as his vice-presidential running mate, Aaron Burr. The divided House took 36 ballots to resolve the deadlock and place Jefferson in office. The 12th Amendment, requiring separate electoral votes for the offices of President and Vice President, was adopted four years later. The system has not changed since...
...family were priests, from Aaron to my father. It was my honour to close the eyes of my famous teacher...
...part of his salvage from an abandoned ship drifting toward Cape Hatteras. And what was the ship? Apparently the Patriot, which had set sail from Charleston, S.C., on Dec. 30, 1812, passed through the British blockade and then vanished. Her most important passenger was Theodosia, daughter of Aaron Burr and wife of South Carolina Governor Joseph Alston...
...later picked up by a descendant of the Burr family simply because of the likelihood that it portrayed Theodosia. Wilmarth's late wife, who was a Burr-family member, inherited it. The artist very likely was John Vanderlyn (1776-1852), a New York painter who was supported by Aaron Burr...
...music was enthusiastically taken up not only by established masters like Igor Stravinsky but also by a whole generation of postwar avantgardists, particularly in Europe. Now the question that remains for the future is how well it will stand up in its own right. "His influence," suggests U.S. Composer Aaron Copland, "may turn out to be far greater than the intrinsic value of his music, which may some day seem too mannered in style and too limited in scope." Webern himself did not think so. "In fifty years at the most," he told a friend shortly before his death, "everyone...