Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juilliard President William Schuman's Symphony for Strings. Riviera critics, hearing it for the first time, found it "purely scientific music," but noted that "among a sea of dissonances there are hidden some real beauties." Then they were assaulted by Oklahoma-born Roy Harris' Third Symphony; its abrupt ending, with a savage blast from the whole orchestra, left the audience gaping (muttered the perspiring tympanisf. "For this kind of thing I should have six arms"). When the audience recovered, they gave Harris' Third long and generous applause. Not so the critics. Wrote one: "Maybe a bit discouraging...
...preparation for the Rivera story, TIME'S Art editor, Alexander Eliot, and Researcher Ruth Brine went to Mexico City to spend ten days with him. Their introduction to Mexican ways was abrupt and, in Eliot's case, painful. They had arranged to pick Rivera up at his home for dinner and, while waiting for him outside in the car, Eliot doubled up with a sharp, agonizing attack of what could only be dysentery. When Rivera came out to meet them, he regarded Eliot for a moment and said, simply: "There is a cure for this...
More enthusiastic, if less flattering and abrupt than the Record (headquarters of the vituperative Colonel Egan, who, incidentally, has not been heard from yet), the Boston Globe and Herald-Tribune, and the New York Times followed their first punches Monday with roundhouse fistfulls of laurels Tuesday...
Israel's present leaders are determined that their nation will not take that path. Foremost and most determined among them is David Ben-Gurion, Premier and Defense Minister, labor leader and philosopher, hardheaded, unsociable and abrupt politician, a prophet who carries...
Five hours after he announced John Bracken's abrupt retirement, James Macdonnell, president of the Progressive Conservative Association, flashed urgent telegrams to organizers in all 245 ridings. The message: get cracking, pick some 1,300 delegates for the convention...