Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct this array of voices and instruments through a piece certainly not noted for its simplicity, is an undertaking worthy of Boston's greatest Symphonic leader. Born at Tver, in the north of Russia, M. Koussevitsky began the study of music very early in life. At the age of twelve he led the Municipal Orchestra in a brilliant concert, and was considered the prodigy of the age. Later he played the double bass in the Moscow Imperial Orchestra, until he again took up conducting...
After such an imposing array of figures, the ambitious father begins to realize what a tremendous help the colleges can be to young hopeful. All they need is a little adaptation; and when thousands of young men, answering the call of material success, become inmates and potential alumni of the colleges, many faculties become every so obliging. Already they try to outdo each other by adding courses, in swine husbandry, scientific laundering, and analytical plumbing...
...principal objection to "Mem" being used for this purpose will be that its very atmosphere seems to dampen any show of enthusiasm for gayety; those who argue thus point to the sombre but dignified array of portraits on the walls as evidence. I distinctly recollect hearing a "long Harvard" given in Memorial Hall on one occasion that would put to shame any cheer heard in the Stadium of late years...
Veteran Forwards in Starting Array...
Selecting only twenty-six names from the galaxy of genius which the nineteenth century brought forth, he includes only one Englishman among them. This fortunate is Sir Walter Scott. With a Pecksniffian wave of his hand, he disposes of all the array of poetic brilliance from Wordsworth to Tennyson. It is evident on the face of it that Signor Croce has not written a history of European literature in the nineteenth century...