Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call Vaughan's Williams' music austere. This is virtuoso piece with colorful orchestral effects and dramatic abandon for all concerned. The performers, supposedly the largest assemblage of musicians in Sanders Theatre's history, sounded truly jubilant. The final "Prayse ye the Lorde's name," sung fortissimo with cymbals and brass blaring in the orchestra, drew cheers even before the theatre had stopped reverberating. Richard Sogg '52, deserves special credit for his energetic playing of the exacting, and exhausting, piano part...
...morning. He found an oil slick spread across the water-hydraulic oil of a kind used exclusively on submarines. That was not enough. The Navy knew how easy it was for an overeager soundman to "hear" torpedo sounds and hull echoes on a lonely watch. False contact, declared the brass, and closed the incident...
...have come to the point with this thing, where we cannot afford to go on any longer. The American people are losing patience, and I'm afraid that we may be reaching the breaking point." But the Pentagon was not all impatience. The Army's top brass, Generals Omar Bradley and J. Lawton Collins, favored sticking it out at Panmunjom so long as the Communists were willing to talk and not start up a fresh offensive. They felt that the stalemate was, in effect, a gain for the U.S.; it kept down casualties and meanwhile provided a training...
...Brass Knuckles. For two tempestuous years, close-cropped Bob Patterson was a central figure in the postwar upheaval in Pentagonia. His behind-the-scenes battle with Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal on unification of the armed forces was a brass-knuckled epic; Patterson wanted a total merger, with all services under a "Generalissimo." He raised a vigorous, though lonely, cry against disarmament in, 1946, helped generate the idea of the North Atlantic Treaty...
Holy Man Brahmachari toured Nehru's constituency in a 1931 Dodge sedan, accompanied by a troupe of Hindu singers. To the chanting of Hindu psalms, he danced on the platform, rhythmically tapping a pair of small brass cymbals. A disciple read from a pamphlet he had written. Brahmachari on U.S. divorce: "I have heard that in America . . . women marry and divorce as many as three husbands a day, and there are some women who have had several hundred spouses each." On U.S. marriage: "An Indian student, visiting an American cemetery, found a young woman seated by the side...