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...minute work for six vocal soloists with chorus and full orchestra-but with no trumpets, and a Flügelhorn and alto trombone added-was presented by Venice's International Festival of contemporary music. Stravinsky's text and title-Threni, id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Threnody: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah)-come from three of the familiar elegies from the Catholic Vulgate Bible. Written in the tone-row technique that Stravinsky once scorned but has lately adopted, the work has a spare, transparent orchestral accompaniment that for long stretches consists of no more than an occasional chord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Serial Success | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...held and questioned for about 20 hours before his arraignment, the court held that his oral and written confessions made during that period were inadmissible: "Circumstances may justify a brief delay . . . But the delay must not be of a nature to give opportunity for the extraction of a confession." fl Upset, on the bi.sis of its recent Smith Act and Watkins case decisions (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: On Sex & Obscenity | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...pronouns-I, you, he and she-which he designated I, II, III, and which retain the same form when they shift from subject to object. Plurals are indicated with the figure 2. Thus I² we or us; II² you (plural); III² they or them; Q1 trees; fl houses. Verbs, which keep the same form for all persons, are preceded by a single line when active, a double line when passive. Thus i is to see, II to be seen. A dot before the verb line indicates the past tense, a dot behind the line the future. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: International Language | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...Yardlings, strengthened by the return of Fl etcher Davis, will race one of Dartmouth's most powerful freshman squads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Will Meet Dartmouth Tonight in I.A.B. | 2/12/1955 | See Source »

John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, Senator Paul H. Douglas (D-Fl.) and Senator Ralph H. Flanders (R-Vt.) have spoken in the past. Last year Adlai B. Stevenson drew a crowd of 2,000 to Sanders Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'Brian to Give Godkin Lectures in Late April | 1/14/1955 | See Source »

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