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" Sondheim then said of Babbitt, " I am his maverick, his one student who went into the popular arts with all his serious artillery.
Sondheim says that when he asked Babbitt if he could study atonality, Babbitt replied " You haven ’ t exhausted tonal resources for yourself yet, so I ’ m not going to teach you

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These greetings were written by: Sheila Hancock, Julia McKenzie, Milton Babbitt, Judi Dench, and Glynis Johns.
Of Disney studio animators, Art Babbitt is most regarded for the creation of the Goofy character, while original concept drawings were by Frank Webb.
Among the studio musicians responsible for the " Motown Sound " were keyboardists Earl Van Dyke, Johnny Griffith, and Joe Hunter ; guitarists Joe Messina, Robert White, and Eddie Willis ; percussionists Eddie " Bongo " Brown and Jack Ashford ; drummers Benny Benjamin, Uriel Jones, and Richard " Pistol " Allen ; and bassists James Jamerson and Bob Babbitt.
In addition to Babbitt, among the notable animators that left following the strike were Bill Tytla, Walt Kelly and Virgil Partch.
New Humanism or neohumanism were terms applied to a theory of literary criticism, together with its consequences for culture and political thought, developed around 1900 by the American scholar Irving Babbitt, and the scholar and journalist Paul Elmer More.
They were good for potential business partnerships, getting time away from home and family life, and quite simply because “ it was the thing to do .” Babbitt admits that while these clubs “ stimulated him like brandy ,” he often found work dull and nerve-wracking in comparison.
Among those who admired Weber's music were Ned Rorem, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, and David Diamond.
Many of the notions were first elaborated by Howard Hanson ( 1960 ) in connection with tonal music, and then mostly developed in connection with atonal music by theorists such as Allen Forte ( 1973 ), drawing on the work in twelve-tone theory of Milton Babbitt.
More changes were made in the 1990s in an attempt by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to shield the ESA from a Congress hostile to the law.
While most of Motown's backing musicians were African American, and many originally from Detroit, the Funk Brothers included white players as well, such as Messina ( who was featured guitarist on Soupy Sales's nighttime jazz TV show in the 1950s ), Brokensha ( originally from Australia ), Coffey, and Pittsburgh-born Babbitt.
Prior to the facility becoming contractor-operated, it was staffed primarily by civil service workers and military personnel, who were housed on government owned property neighboring Hawthorne, including the now-extinct town of Babbitt and military housing known as Schweer Drive.
Until the mid 1950s, poured Babbitt bearings were common in automotive applications.
The poured Babbitt bearings were kept thin.
The identifiable figures of the New Humanist movement, besides Babbitt and More, were mostly influenced by Babbitt on a personal level and included G. R. Elliott ( 1883-1963 ), Norman Foerster ( 1887-1972 ), Frank Jewett Mather ( 1868-1953 ), Robert Shafer ( 1889-1956 ) and Stuart Pratt Sherman ( 1881-1926 ).
Milton Babbitt also recalls in his introduction to the 1978 edition of Twentieth Century Music how he and his classmates referred to Bauer “ not derisively but affectionately ” as “' Aunt Marion ' for her matronly manner and appearance, and even for her classes, which were conducted so as to be suitable for occurrence at teatime in a genteel parlor .” He too describes Bauer as generous and sensitive, particularly in terms of guiding her students ' careers, but also in terms of her writing due to the fact that she mentions so many composers and organizations.
In the introduction to the later edition, Babbitt recollected his thoughts upon reading the work for the first time: “ ere was a book ... which concerned itself interestedly, admiringly, enthusiastically, even affectionately with works of music which, in most academic environments, were unmentionables, untouchables, and unspeakables, and anywhere else were unknowns .” Babbitt specifically mentions his appreciation for her discussion of the serialist composers with accompanying musical examples ; during the Depression years, scores ( especially of new music ) were prohibitively expensive to own personally, and only a few libraries had copies.
During the 1930s, Moore, Art Babbitt, Norm Ferguson, Bill Tytla, and Ham Luske were the dominant Disney animators whose pioneering work culminated in 1937 with the breakthrough of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Democrats Bruce Babbitt ( Governor 1978-87 ) and Morris Udall ( Congressman 1961-90 ) were contenders for their party's presidential nomination.

Babbitt and both
The same sort of thinking plays so large a part in both Babbitt and More, that we must examine it in some detail.
Babbitt enjoys being the hometown to a few celebrities both local ( Dale Kasten ) and national ( Buzz Schneider ).
Although he would eventually shift his focus away from electronic music, the genre that first gained for him public notice, by the 1980s, Babbitt wrote both electronic music and music for conventional musical instruments, often combining the two.
Lewis has been both criticized and congratulated for his unorthodox writing style in Babbitt.
As one reviewer summarized, both novels presented a portrait in which “ the principle character is brought into conflict with the accepted order of things sufficiently to illustrate its ruthlessness .” Like Main Street, the portrait of American life that Babbitt presented was controversial and had its share of admirers and critics.
During 1960, Reynolds met with both Varèse and Cage in New York ( and the latter again in 1961 in Ann Arbor ), with Babbitt in Ann Arbor in 1960, and with Boulanger in Ann Arbor in 1961.
Late era bassist Bob Babbitt and guitarist Dennis Coffey both joined the ensemble in 1967.
Well-known films in which Andrews acted include Send Me No Flowers, with Doris Day and Rock Hudson, Advise and Consent, The Harder They Fall, The Young Savages, Elmer Gantry, in which he was memorable as George F. Babbitt, The Absent-Minded Professor and Son of Flubber, in both of which he played the Defense Secretary, and Avanti !, in which he was a very convincing agent of the State Department.
Bauer's legacy can be measured not only by her output of at least 160 compositions along with her five books, but also by the impact she had on the careers of both Ruth Crawford Seeger and Milton Babbitt, who went on to become well-known American composers of the twentieth century.

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In Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ) – which was produced in 1944 but not released until 1946 – Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire – for whom he had the greatest admiration – in the famous " The Babbitt and the Bromide " challenge dance routine.
On January 18, 2001 Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt created the Kingman Reef National Wildlife Refuge during his final days in office with Secretary ’ s Order 3223.
< http :// www. oxfordreference. com > 27 October 2011 </ ref > Clement Greenberg sees modernism ending in the 1930s, with the exception of the visual and performing arts, but with regard to music, Paul Griffiths notes that, while modernism " seemed to be a spent force " by the late 1920s, after World War II, " a new generation of composers-Boulez, Barraqué, Babbitt, Nono, Stockhausen, Xenakis " revived modernism .< ref > Paul Griffiths " modernism " The Oxford Companion to Music.
He went on to study composition with the composer Milton Babbitt.
" Tolkien wrote to W. H. Auden that The Marvellous Land of Snergs " was probably an unconscious source-book for the Hobbits " and he told an interviewer that the word hobbit " might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt " ( like hobbits, George Babbitt enjoys the comforts of his home ).
Actively interested in parapsychology and spirit communication, Hapgood spent a decade working with the New England medium Elwood Babbitt in attempts to make contact with notable figures from the past.
Hapgood audiotaped and transcribed a number of Babbitt's " trance lectures " which purported to come from Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu, using the material to publish his final three books: Voices of Spirit, Through the Psychic Experience of Elwood Babbitt ( 1975 ), Talks with Christ and His Teachers Through the Psychic Gift of Elwood Babbitt ( 1981 ), and The God Within: a Testament of Vishnu, a Handbook for the Spiritual Renaissance ( 1982 ).
* Babbitt, Elwood D., with Charles Hapgood ( editor ); Talks with Christ and his teachers: through the psychic gift of Elwood Babbitt, 1981
* Babbitt, Elwood D., with Charles Hapgood ( editor ); God Within, A Testament of Vishnu
* Milton Babbitt wrote a song called " Philomel " based on the story, with a libretto by poet John Hollander, for vocalist Bethany Beardslee accompanied by synthesizer and recorded soprano.
2006 saw the closing of Kasson Pool Table Company leaving Babbitt with many fewer jobs.
The city of Babbitt was left with the buildings due to the default of loans given to the company.
Cliffs Natural Resources owns and operates Northshore Mining, which has mining operations in Babbitt and crushing, concentrating ( grinding ) and pelletizing operations in Silver Bay, along with United Taconite which has mining operations in Eveleth and crushing, concentrating and pelletizing operations in Forbes.
Babbitt is the only Arizona governor to have completed two four-year terms with nine years of service.
Babbitt is also credited with creating the character of Goofy, a character which he later described in the 1987 documentary film " Animating Art ":
Disney was forced to re-hire Babbitt after the strike was over, along with many other strikers, but by now the two men hated one another.

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