Word: trumpeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flash, at a trumpet crash, I am all at once what Christ is, since He was what...
...riot, his pretense being a "good new boy," who has been caught with a potato peeler hidden in a place of maximum security, and been put in solitary. Kinney spreads the word and soon "the less orderly element in this institution" have burned the chapel, organized a tuba and trumpet band around improvised barbecue pits, and taken three guards as hostages...
Many people who see the Band at the football games or concerts wonder about "the gray-haired man who plays trumpet." He is Paul A. Touchette, a member of the Cambridge Fire Department; he is not only a bonefiede member of the Band but also its only honorary lifetime concert master. In the forties Cambridge firemen occasionally played with the Harvard Band, but only Touchette has remained...
...locales, the film is faithful to the spirit of its original. It is still about the social, marital, and personal maladjustment of a "working-class intellectual," a university-educated sweet-stall operator named Jimmy Porter. In his frequent periods of depression, Jimmy still has recourse to blowing his Dixieland trumpet, and when feeling good he still composes pseudo-music hall songs combining sex and sociology, one of which is entitled "Don't Be Afraid to Sleep with Your Sweetheart Just Because She's Better Than...
...Benedick off and on for 28 years, he gave a performance that was marvelously nuanced. Still, as he himself has admitted, he is not an ideal Benedick. The part demands more brio than he has inside him to give. He plays the clarinet when he should be blowing a trumpet. Yet he was careful to choose a Beatrice that would properly balance the see-saw, in this case Margaret Leighton...