Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quincy won the 200 medley relay in 2:02.9 with a team of Thomas Angell, Lightbody, Mayers, and Schroeder. Angell won the 50 breaststroke in 35.9 seconds. John Arnold of Leverett was second...
...Dark View. Many of Muncie's unemployed are middleaged, like John Campbell, or unskilled, like Arnold Mace, or both. But unemployment strikes even men who are young and trained and eager. James Smith, 28, married and the father of three young children, is a skilled patternmaker, and he has practiced all the virtues that are supposed to assure prosperity. He is thrifty, hardworking, enterprising. After he was laid off in mid-1960, he tried to make a living as a freelance patternmaker, leased a small machine shop, for which he agreed to pay 40% of his profits...
Roots (by Arnold Wesker) is the first play by this much-heralded "angry" young English playwright to reach New York. But if all too social-minded. Roots is in tone-except dismayingly at the end -far from angry; it might qualify, in fact, as the flattest-voiced play of the season. This is part of its meaning: it concerns the return of a young girl living in London to her farm-worker family -set, ignorant, mean-souled people given to drab gossip and barnyard jokes. The girl, having gained wider horizons through a self-educated Socialist boy friend, vainly hymns...
...only because it preserves in a curiously suspended state all of the conventions of romanticism. At the end, the chorus launches into a hymn to the returning sun, with its suggestion of resurrection. A musical resurrection was certainly on the way when the work was written, but even Composer Arnold Schoenberg did not know at the time what it was to be. After Gurrelieder, the road led on to the forbidding atonal shrieks of Moses und Aron...
...turn of the century, a 26-year-old song tinkerer in Vienna wrote a gigantic cantata that profoundly impressed an already influential German composer, Richard Strauss. To Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder heralded a new flowering of post-Wagnerian romanticism. But the work was, in fact, only a massive monument to a musical tradition about to decay. After it, Schoenberg was to begin the experiments with atonalism that eventually determined the direction of 20th century music. Once popular in Germany, Gurrelieder had its U.S. premiere under Leopold Stokowski in 1932, has rarely been performed since. Last week at Carnegie...