Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agile little Dr. Mildon jumped on the nearest bar stool. "Now," said he in a penetrating, high-pitched voice, "I want you to sing a song we find you people of Plymouth know very well-Abide with Me." The two chars sang every word without missing a note, sipping occasionally the while...
...year-old counterpoint student when she married the slight, 41-year-old opera conductor. His ferociousness in the orchestra pit was already a legend. By abolishing the claque and ordering latecomers toa special box, Mahler had angered performers and audiences alike. Once the musicians stubbornly refused to rehearse another note, and Mahler barked: "Gentlemen, keep your fury for the performance. Then at last we shall have [it] played as it should...
...short, many a company found that, with taxes lightened, it could outfoot rising costs. And in the booming market, it could sell all it could make, do better than it had hoped. For those who had been struck into the red, this was a cheering note. Before the year is ended, they too might make up what was lost at the start...
...strident trumpet took up the what's-wrong-with-our-colleges refrain. New York University's Professor of Philosophy Sidney Hook, in a new book (Education for Modern Man, Dial; $2.75), blew a sweet note for John Dewey and experimental education, a sour blast for Chicago's Robert Hutchins and the classic tradition...
...flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la," chanted the Sage of the Age, using his ancestors' five-note scale. Hu Flung Huey ocC reported on the banks of the Charles, blinking wisely in the warm...