Word: boston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Piston Concertino for Piano and Orchestra which the Boston Symphony played last week, for instance, has long passages in a distinctly lyrical mood. Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58, which was played at the Longy School last evening, shows how remarkably his style had softened since the time of his Violin Sonata and the works of his middle life. The same development is apparent in Prokofiev. The change from the acrid dissonance of works like the Scythian Suite to the out-and-out romanticism of the G minor Violin Concerto is one of the most striking examples of what...
...Varsity hockey squad, 60 strong, held its first practice session last night on the Boston Skating Club rink in Brighton. Clark Hodder '25, serving his second season as Varsity coach, was pleased with the turnout and indicated that there was "a good nucleus to start with...
...athlete who after an exhausting workout wonders "is it worth it?"; for the bespectacled lad who in his Widener cell asks himself "where is this getting me?"; for the socialite who in Hayes-Bickford at 5 a.m. muses "why do I ever go to Boston parties?"; for the Brooks House missionary who in the squalor of the slums demands "what can I do for them?";--for these men particularly the Crimson has been proven to have the greatest value. Now if your life--or your shy modesty--prevents you from being included in any one of the aforementioned categories there...
...rescuers found nothing. Captain W. W. Kuhne of American Export Line's Excambion docked at Boston and snorted: "The whole thing sounds fishy! . . . Very heavy seas were running. It was pitch-dark. Visibility was almost zero. In my opinion no submarine could have operated successfully...
...days later, after Representative John McCormack of Boston had demanded the recall from Moscow of U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt, Franklin Roosevelt remarked softly that bad manners should never beget bad manners...