Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of the featured works, a small string orchestra under Norman Shapiro's direction performed Purcell's Fantasia on One Note. The novelty of this work lies in the "one note"-C-sustained throughout. All the harmony and counterpoint revolve about this tonal pivot, and it is a tribute to Purcell's genius that the technical tour-de-force never overshadows melodic beauty and expressiveness. Mr. Shapiro's treatment, however, seemed a bit heavy-handed and the players assigned the persistent C could not quite agree on its pitch...
...intensive study of the financial conditions of University teaching fellows will soon be inaugurated," Richard C. Hodgson 2G, Student Council member, stated last night...
Seated at long, white-clothed tables in the Hotel Statler ballroom, the delegates plowed through hundreds of thousands of words-a few of them angry. Stormed Dr. Arthur C. McGiffert Jr., president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, about the decision to keep the National Council headquarters in New York City instead of moving it to Chicago: "The decision . . . sent a shiver of dismay and apprehension through the Christian people who live west of the Alleghenies...
...Rubber to assure markets for their own products. The Du Ponts defense: they had bought the stock purely as an investment. To protect their original G.M. investment they were forced to pour millions more into the company in the early '205, and run it, after G.M. Founder William C. Durant's enormous stock-market losses threatened to ruin him and G.M. alike. At the time, the Du Pont total investment was some $80 million; its holdings are now worth $1.8 billion...
...juice went on sale in waxed-paper cartons as a new competitor of frozen orange juice. A new process developed by Golden Gift, Inc., De Land, Fla., bombards the fresh juice with ultraviolet rays to halt bacteria and enzyme growth without adding preservatives, keeps orange juice fresh, with vitamin C content unchanged, up to two weeks in household refrigerators. Price: 35? a quart...