Word: program
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With this in mind, the task is to find a relief program that will gain the cooperation of the British and German governments. The most promising proposal made so far is that of Herbert Hoover, America's Number One war relief expert. His idea is to let the occupied countries buy food-stuffs here with their liquid assets now in this country, and carry it home in their own ships. Added to this would be the food contributed by numerous charities; the total should be enough to tide the needy over the worst months. Careful distribution of the food...
Such a qualified program should meet the British objections that food relief would be an aid to Germany's war effort. To shift responsibility for the food shortage upon Hitler may be good propaganda, but is hardly a realistic or humane attitude. There simply is not enough food in Europe to go around, nor the means of getting it around to all. The Germans have done what any victor in their position would do--have taken what they need and left the others to make out as well as they can with what is left. According to the Black report...
...line-up next December will wipe out the ward system of politics, and councilmen will have to run on a city-wide program. Harvard representatives will find themselves philosophising to the factory workers from Lechmere, and Mickey Sullivan will have to chat with the Communists of Harvard Square. Perhaps when East Cambridge and Brattle Street are concerned with each other, the "good people of the town" will be a little less parochial, the "others" less resentful; and Harvard-Cambridge relationships more friendly...
...Stradivarius String Quartet, which is again making Harvard its headquarters this year, has been touring House Common-rooms for several weeks with its performances of chamber-music. Tuesday night at Leverett House it played a program very likely to be repeated at the Fogg Wednesday evening, which included an early Beethoven quartet, a Schumann quartet, and a quartet by the contemporary talent Martinu. This followed out their usual policy of playing at each concert one classical, one romantic, and one modern quartet. The players made sure to place their modern offering in the middle: doubtless they were afraid of shocking...
...benefit of those who are interested, I repeat here Rachmaninoff's Sunday afternoon program (which, may I add, is a typical Rachmaninoff program in its popular glitter and lack of musicianly interest): Organ Prelude and Fugue, Bach; a Mendelssohn Rondo; a Chopin Nocturne and two Mazurkas; the Sonetto del Petraca and the Rhapsody No. 11 of Liszt, and Beethoven's Sonata Apparrionata, as well as several compositions of Rachmaninoff...