Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subsidy to state schools meant discrimination against "free" schools, which are mostly Catholic (TIME, May 10). Socialist Spaak's common-sense solution in overwhelmingly Catholic Belgium: a consolation prize of $1,350,000 for "free" schools. But rebellion broke out among old Socialist anticlericals. Trumpeted brass-lunged Party President Max Buset: "We are asked to concede too much." He lined up other Socialist M.P.s, predicted that the Catholics-and Spaak-would back down...
...Carnegie Hall, no one had to strain to hear what frantic Trumpeter Gillespie and his 15 boppers (including four other trumpets) had to say. Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up on top. Pieces like Two Bass Hit and Stay On It didn't sound like "moldy fig" music (boppese for "decadent" Dixieland jazz); but, except for Dizzy's wild, fast-riding solos, they did sound like something Duke Ellington had thought better of a long time...
...while the Band was temporarily in second place, its performance was by no means second-rate. There can be no denying that it does its best on band music from Sousa on down; somehow the effect of sixty ponderous brasses proclaiming Bach chorales seems a little foreign. The same situation in reverse came up several years ago when the Boston Symphony recorded "stars and Stripes Forover" and did a creditable job but might better have left such undertakings to the Harvard Band. To do long-hair (and that portion of the program was not limited to Bach) in such fine...
Toscanini was baptized a Roman Catholic, but has seldom gone to church in recent years, except for the first communions of his two grandchildren. He refuses to conduct without a heavy, brass-framed strip of pictures of his children in his pocket. (The strip includes a picture of son Giorgio, who died at eight in South America...
...Doctors in Philadelphia were told by visiting medical brass that their big job would be to decide which atomic victims were worth treating with scarce blood serum, etc., and which were not. Best Army opinion: anybody caught within a mile of the blast would probably...