Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concert sponsored by the Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs in the Fogg Museum Courtyard last Thursday included selections written over a three-and-a-half century span. Yet the programming was not in the least incongruous. Quite to the contrary; the two works most separated in time, Byrd's Mass for Four Voices (c. 1588) and Stravinsky's Octet for Wind Instruments (1923), both demanded the same sort of intense and wholly purified approach on the part of the listener. The harmonic and melodic devices of better-known musical epochs were not present to induce those stereotyped emotional reactions...
...close of a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. ammunition shortage (TIME, April 13 et seq.), Virginia's Harry Byrd clipped such excerpts of testimony and mailed them off to General Douglas MacArthur in Connecticut for comment. Last week, like a thunderclap from Olympus, came Mac-Arthur's reply...
...Senator Byrd: Whose judgment was that...
...Byrd: Did General MacArthur think the war was going to be over...
Finally, as a bonus, MacArthur offered Harry Byrd his own updated formula for getting a decision in Korea: "We still possess the potential to destroy Red China's flimsy industrial base and sever her tenuous supply lines from the Soviet. This would deny her the resource to support modern war . . . and threaten the Soviet's present hold upon Asia. A warning of action of this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to bring the Korean struggle to an end without further bloodshed. It would dread risking the eventuality of a Red China debacle, and such...