Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dissonance. Composer Einem's six-act opera was full of clashing, dissonant stridencies, which reflected his devotion to Hindemith, Stravinsky and Mussorgsky, and perhaps his admiration of Duke Ellington. Temperamental, giant-sized (6 ft. 6 in.) Conductor Otto Klemperer found it troublesome to rehearse. He packed his bag, boarded a train for Switzerland. Klemperer's Hungarian assistant was rushed in to take his place...
...similar critique of prevailing styles Miss Lois Salsgate, Middlebury alumna, confessed years of proximity to the University had somewhat inured her to the Crimson approach. "Every Harvard man I've seen," declared Miss Salsgate, "has had a little green bag over his shoulder and the posture to match...
...trip home through Egypt, Palestine, England, and Wales, flying denizens of all these places found their way into the Rothenberg game bag, including his largest and most valuable specimen...
Cried Krasilnikov: the Western powers are trying to undermine "young democracy" in Albania. "Albania is being asked to accept conditions dictated by foreign powers. There is no reason why she should be obliged to become the tool of the dollar-bag...
This week Mazumbo let the cat out of the bag. His new name, he declared, was that of a famous West African chieftain, who had once been received by Queen Victoria. Said socially conscious Mazumbo of his socially accepted namesake: "The British Royal Family knows quite a bit about...