Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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At latest reports Sweden's Hitler, Sven Lindholm, was going about his regular business as a sergeant in the Army. A sporty-looking character who somewhat resembles an intelligent football player, he makes no secret of the fact that he considers himself the personal representative of Göring...
The reasons for this symphonic era are not far to seek. They lie, quite naturally, in the character of modern civilization, and its mechanized, accelerated tempo. Symphonic music means variety, and change of pace; volume, and diversity of tone color; filled with a potent appeal for the man who wakes...
Anyone who is addicted to this kind of music must find chamber-music very dull, flat, and colorless, indeed. Its comparative quietness, and its total lack of aggressive character, demand much greater concentration on the listener's part. But the reward of this extra concentration is well worth the effort...
Died. AbdelKader, 88, painter, whose grandfather, Hussein, Dey of Algiers, fled his throne after swatting the French consul with a fly- whisk in 1827 ; after long illness; in Atlantic City. Brought to the U. S. in 1902 by the late Oscar Hammerstein to sing in grand opera, he squandered a...
Moreover, the bank was his, lock, stock & barrel, for he had long ago bought out his partner. On his deathbed he looked up to ask: "Is everything all right?" Advised that it was, he instructed: "Keep it so." His only son, Asahel II, kept it so until last week. For...