Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black-bearded Composer Alan Bush, professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, an industrious writer of acid, modernistic scores, has long believed that the only important function of music is to encourage revolution. In 1929, while staid London music lovers frowned and looked the other way, London's musical leftists, led by Composer Bush, drew throngs to a class-angled production of Handel's venerable sacred oratorio, Belshazzar. Handel's serene 18th-Century score was sung with traditional massiveness by a chorus of 1,800 voices. But it was so staged that the fall...
...year ago Alan Bush threw another musico-political bomb: a leftist piano concerto. The concerto started normally, but in the middle of its last movement the pianist stopped and a tenor voice swung out in a long, earnest recitative on the undignified position of artists in capitalist society...
...will probably be picked from among the following: John N. D. Bush, professor of English; Howard M. Jones, professor of English; Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, professor of Comparative Literature; Francis O. Matthiesson, associate professor of History and Literature; James B. Munn '12, professor of English; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English; John T. Murray '99, professor of English; and Hyder E. Rollins, professor of English...
...that 80.9% of the families questioned listened to CBS's ace, Major Bowes. NBC conducted a supplementary survey, too, by mail over a redefined rural area, wound up confident that NBC's and radio's No. 1 attraction, Charlie McCarthy, is outhitting the Major in the bush leagues as well as everywhere else...
...Australian Bush Fire Relief Fund the Duke of Windsor sent ?10 and a sympathetic thought: "Life is hard enough in these times without the added tribulation of bush fires...