Word: serious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Essential Condition. If Boston was pleased with Munch, there were also reasons why Munch could be pleased with Boston. As U.S. cities go, it had a long tradition of serious music: it had celebrated the end of the War of 1812 with performances of portions of Haydn's Creation and Handel's Messiah. Boston also boasted a club unique in the U.S. Ten or twelve times a year, as their ancestors have done since 1837, members of the exclusive Harvard Musical Association go to their paneled clubrooms on Beacon Hill for a smoker of chamber music, beans, beer...
...revolutionary changes was at the top of the agenda. Notably absent from the conference were six delegates from China, who had been unable to leave Communist-occupied territory because of "visa trouble." South Korean delegates explained that for Christians in Russian-dominated North Korea, the situation is increasingly serious. Numerous pastors, they said, have been forced to flee south, while others have disappeared altogether...
...view of the insistence of the Administration upon the steady decline in the strength of the Armed Forces despite Congressional authorization and appropriations," the Democratic Representative said, "and in the absence of any serious international crisis comparable to that existing in March 1948, I have concluded that I cannot support an extension of the draft...
...More serious has been the opposition of the colonial powers to continuance of the 16-member committee which analyzes the social and economic data from dependent areas. The life of the group was recently extended three years by a vote of 41 to 4, with Britain, France, Belgium, and South Africa in the minority. Britain complained that information was being used by Russia for propaganda purposes, and that the committee had been given an "illegal" assignment to study political questions. The British also felt that reports should be made on all backward areas, self-governing as well as dependent...
Loss of China to the Communists is "not so serious a blow to democracy as is popularly supposed," H. V. Kaltenborn '09 told a near capacity crowd at Littauer Center last night...