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Mandelbaum's Flute Sonata received the outstanding performance of the evening. Suzanne Heckman and accompanist Ann Besser played with warmth and ease. The third movement, a gay vivace, received an especially spirited reading. The music itself is essentially jyrical, without being discursive. The composer's style is contemporary but not needlessly dissonant, and he a voids nearly all of the melodic and harmonic cliches...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler., | Title: Birth of a Tradition | 4/24/1952 | See Source »

...they felt that Naziism was a black blot on their record? Why should they take so much time and effort justifying themselves, unless they knew that their reputations were ruined? German criticism of other countries is mainly defensive. When a German angrily declares that "die Amerikaner sind auch nicht besser" (the Americans are no better, either), he makes himself feel that he is not the only one who bears a burden of guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: GERMANY: UP FROM THE ASHES | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

This bruise was augmented by his encounter with the Fred Allen program later that night after the Kids vanquished the commentators. Comic Joe Besser hurtled off the stage and bowled the waiting Kupperman into the wings. The Kid came up weeping, but went on anyway. The incident did not halt his plea for a pet to take home with him. Deciding that rabbits "whelped too fast," he settled for a parrot ("It wouldn't eat too much or have to go out for walks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Midget Euclid | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...best of the broad jumpers. Both of these men are of the first-year class. Other freshmen who are expected to prove of value are Palmer, Crouch, Carr, Dealey and Gibbing in the mile; Beasley in the two-mile, Hunter in the high jump, Besser, and Shubert in the quarter-mile, Jackson in the sprints, and Shaw and Sinclair in the weight events. Fred Pollard, the football star, who was a capable performer over the hurdles a year ago, has been unable to report for track work as yet owing to illness. It is expected, however, that he will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ITHACANS PREPARE TO MEET UNIVERSITY IN B. A. A. GAMES | 1/23/1917 | See Source »

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