Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor unions knew just how Dr. Frankenstein felt. After scaring industry out of its wits with monstrous portal-to-portal suits, unions last week got scared...
Roger Sessions' music is for composers and critics, not for mere listeners. Next day the audience was told what it had heard. The San Francisco Chronicle's able critic Alfred Frankenstein, called it "big . . . challenging . . . important . . . austere . . . fiendishly difficult ... a complex of forceful and fruitful ideas which can be studied for a long time before they yield all their secrets...
...technology than they have reached now. The very vastness of the apparatus their genius has created stands over them like a strange and terrible master. Every man, as Sophocles said years ago, loves what he has made himself. Canadians have as yet fallen in love with no such Frankenstein. And, as a resuit of this, our future is more clearly in our own hands. . . . Socialism in the United States, if it comes, might easily be totalitarian. Socialism in Canada, if it comes, will certainly be democratic...
...Paganini Quartet (so named because their cello, viola, and two violins are Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...
Quicker than he could say pardon!, another announcer broke in: "Atomic energy has turned [into a] Frankenstein [monster and] mastered its inventors. Shattering explosions have rent the earth from Siberia to Ontario...