Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unlike certain other clubs at Harvard," John H. Sutter '51, president of the College World Federalists, said last night, "we are not interested in forming satellite organizations. Our sole interest is to spread the Federalist movement...
Last week Manhattan audiences were listening to a new symphony that Russians had heard once, were not hearing any more. Leopold Stokowski. and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony performed the U.S. premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony. The first movement was dark but thematically appealing, the slow movement harmonically and rhythmically as dull as dishwater. The fast finale oompah-oompahed along in Russian style until about 30 bars from the end. Only then, for about a dozen bars, did listeners hear the powerfully dissonant Prokofiev they had known in the Scythian Suite and the first violin concerto. After...
...Entire Family. Peripatetic Hearn was completely bowled over by Yokohama -"A world where everything is upon a smaller and daintier scale . . . where all movement is slow and soft, and voices are hushed." His shortness no longer embarrassed him: Japan was a "realization . . . of the old [folklore] dream of a World of Elves." He loved Japanese ideographs, Japanese "delicacy," the "atmospheric limpidity" of the Japanese climate...
...immediate concern to Rochow is the improvement of water-repellent compounds. Tried on airplane windshields, they virtually eliminate the need for windshield wipers. "Sight-savar" tissues, sold commercially for the cleaning of eyeglasses, are coated with this compound. Coated tubing greatly facilitates the movement of blood in transfusions...
...reaching this comfortable estate, Frank Costello had also achieved a peculiar but significant place in U.S. society. The rackets, like college football, the labor movement, and the care and breeding of Christmas trees, had inevitably become big business. The brain had replaced the muscle, the injunction had become more potent than the Tommy gun, and surviving warriors of prohibition upheld the status quo. Frank Costello, "legitimate businessman," dramatically typified the change...