Word: formed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...would not be President were it not for the fact that Lázaro Cárdenas had backed him, that the extreme left wing had put their machines behind him and their machine guns in front of him. So in last-minute dickering Avila Camacho agreed to form an interim Cabinet, with several holdovers from the Cárdenas regime. It looked as if for the time there would be a government of compromise...
...audiences for 35 years, by playing them music very beautifully, not by wowing them." At last week's end, the traveling Philharmonikers were still on the road. But back in Manhattan worried directors were sadly pondering its Chicago defeat, wondering how to get it back into its old form...
...back on the bandwagon. Since then (1937) he has worked in the Leningrad Conservatory. The symphony which Philadelphia heard last week sounded as if Shostakovich's seat were secure-even though the symphony lacked a choral apotheosis of Lenin which the composer had originally planned. Unorthodox in symphonic form, its three movements were: slow, fast, faster. The last movement reminded one Philadelphia critic (Edwin H. Schloss of the Record) of "Comrade John Philip Sousa, in blouse and boots...
...Samuel Richardson's Pamela popularized seduction as theme, letter sequences as form, stuffy moralizing to answer moralists' cries of frivolity and vice...
...afternoon should be a treat, something to stay home and hug the radio for. Except for a tendency toward low comedy in their productions last year, the Met put on as delightful a performance of Mozart as any within memory. 'The Marriage of Figaro, of course, in its original form was Beaumarchais' virulent satire on the French nobility.' If Da Ponte, Mozart's incompetent librettist, had not emasculated Beaumarchais' play of all its social satire, until it was nothing but lace and frills, we might have a more cogent piece of drama. Even as it is, Mozart's score...