Word: letdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frankly, the National League has very little sense. They would do well to quit staging photographic finishes every year that leave the pennant winners capable of enjoying nothing but a good letdown in the World Series. Of course, the Yankees would win anyway but it might take six or seven games instead of four...
This year only a handful of enthusiasts turned out to watch one of Harvard's great track teams. For it was one of Harvard's best track teams, despite the outcome of the Heptagonal meet which was the result of an inevitable letdown after the pitch reached against Yale the week before. Moreover Jackko's team loses so little horsepower by graduation that an even more brilliant season is in the cards...
...long letdown. Moskva finally broke out over a small island. For 45 minutes, wide-mouthed Gordienko circled, looking for a good field. There was none. As night fell he took the best he could find. With wheels up, Moskva porpoised off a knoll, slammed down on her belly just beyond. Kokkinaki came to as the ship shuddered to a stop...
...heavyweight conductor for a few seasons, it gets very proud of its bumps and bruises. When the top-flight conductor resigns, and a bantamweight takes his place, the orchestra is apt to sulk. In the past few years two of the finest U. S. symphony orchestras have had this letdown: Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony (Toscanini to Barbirolli); the Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski to Eugene Ormandy). The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw...
...little of the customary interest for which Koussevitzky as a program builder, has become justly famous. Recalling with extreme satisfaction the magnificent reading of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony which began last season's concerts, the Symphony in E minor, "From the New World" by Dvorak, is something of a letdown. We cannot believe that Koussevitzky was governed in his choice by the holiday which precedes the concert. More probably, Koussevitzky feels that this symphony has unjustly suffered because it has been overplayed and not because it is inferior workmanship. One thing is sure, that a great conductor can make this...