Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler must pass on it before anything can be done, many people seem to think that because of his ruthless character, nothing will be accomplished. Jones suggested that Hitler would lose a great deal of his prestige with his own people by blocking so necessary and so humanitarian a movement...
...bombast. Whether this performance will not begin to irritate after the fifth or sixth playing is hard to predict, but I incline to think it will. Technically, the recording is excellent except for an occasional scratchy surface and that unpleasant wavery effect toward the end of the second movement...
...continuo, were the equivalent in Corelli's day of the string quartet, and in fact evolved into the later form during the classical period. Corelli himself wrote a tremendous volume of them, some forty odd, of which two are to be played tonight. Three of Mozart's one-movement sonatas for the same combination of instruments will also be played, and they probably represent a revived interest on Mozart's part in the by then slightly archaic chamber form...
Growing rapidly, the list of names almost doubled in size, over the weekend, jumping up from just a little over 600 to its present size. Adding some 350 signatures the Union was the strongest single booster of the movement. Eliot, Dunster, and Leverett Houses each added more than 100 names apiece...
...usual story, and he always maintained a true dignity about him. He had actually accomplished much in his 69 years. He came from Exeter to the Harvard of the 1890's, where his pattern coincided with the aesthetic movement of the day. Editor of the Monthly, Pudding, Signet, O. K., and the like--these are the matters of the record. He is supposed to have made Phi Beta Kappa without ever taking a single lecture-note. But what he liked to remember best was the time they entertained Anna Held in Dudley Hall, when the champagne flowed and the marble...