Word: boast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Educators who had taken an advance look at the TIME survey were not sure that this homogeneity was anything for colleges to boast about. They had prided themselves on cultivating individual minds, at least among their A scholars...
...dismiss "bebop" so lightly [TIME, May 17]. After all, jazz is the only genuine contribution to contemporary music that America can boast of. Our jazz masters are the world's finest, which is more than I can say for our "serious" composers. Bebop is a tremendous thing-it must be heard with the brain and felt with the soul; it packs as much emotional intensity as any symphony...
Both sides last week contained men who felt compelled to boast of tomorrow. Whatever hope there was of an understanding between Israel and the Arab states, short of years of debilitating conflict, lay in the fact that there were also some who were boasting as little as possible...
...Springs house, whose living-room windows frame Pikes Peak, Composer Harris, now 50, was having an unusual silent streak. Even for him, the country's most prolific symphonist, and one of the most frequently heard, a first performance in St. Patrick's would have been something to boast about. Said he stubbornly: "The Mass [is] for the Catholic people of the United States...
Unfortunately Feathers?a night-lighted study of bums in Central Park?was as superior to Harrity's other work as it had been to the other fellows'. About all Harrity's other work could boast was that it brought Producer Dowling's wife, Ray Dooley, out of retirement and let her toss in, for oldtimers' sake, her famous Follies routine of a squalling infant. At week's end Hope was a thing of the past...