Word: half-dozen
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After seeing their score posted on the board, the Birk Brothers Brewers quintet adjourned to a bar, entertained a half-dozen friends with $35 worth of beer...
From some 200 psychologists, uncomfortably seated in a hotel ballroom, this aptly delivered diatribe evoked thunderous applause. The chairman genially announced, ''Mr. Rogosin has stuck his neck out," asked for comment. It quickly appeared that there were at least a half-dozen psychologists in the room who still thought ESP might be a reality. These arose, one by one, to criticize the critic. One charged him with not approaching the problem in a neutral spirit, with making his own arbitrary definitions of Science and Truth...
...when Cincinnati's thick-lipped Conductor Eugene Goossens last week announced the U. S. premiere of the "finest symphony of the past 15 years," musical cognoscenti lifted their brows. Fine symphonies of the past 15 years have included two by Finland's great bald Jean Sibelius, a half-dozen by such talented Russians as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff and Tykon Krennikov . Conductor Goossens' entry for the honor was the Symphony in G Minor of reticent, little-known British Composer Ernest John Moeran. Premiered before a stuffy audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Moeran's opus...
Sally, Irene and Mary (Twentieth Century-Fox) lacks the timely zing that makes most Darryl Zanuck cinemusicals seem a little better than they are. Comic interludes are contributed by horn-beaked Jimmy Durante, startled-looking Fred Allen. Of a half-dozen tunes shared by Songstress Alice Faye and Crooner Husband Tony Martin, the Gordon-Revel Sweet As a Song is best...
...Thomas Beecham had organized a six-day Delius Festival, which the composer attended in a wheel chair. But his opera, Koanga, had waited more than 35 years for its British premiere. His masterpieces, the Mass of Life and the opera, A Village Romeo and Juliet, had received only a half-dozen hearings, none at all outside Central Europe and London...