Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergo Koussevitsky did a masterful job with his orchestra and chorus yesterday, and the soloists, Carol Brice, David Lloyd (tenor), James Pease (baritone), and Wesley Addy (speaker) were better than good. The Harvard Glee Club was at its best in voice and control for the occasion. Before the main event Dr. Koussevitzky and orchestra gave their customarily rigid performance of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, the first and last movements of which remain to this critic deserts of brisk but avid content...
...Rumanian cabinet took away ex-King Carol's Rumanian citizenship and such worldly goods as he left behind when he abdicated in 1940. Plain Mr. Hohenzollern, they decided, had "slandered" the state. His son, plain Mr. Michael Hohenzollern is allowed to keep his citizenship and part of his fortune...
Like the others, Williamson was accused of advocating the overthrow by violence of the U.S. Government. His lawyer, Mrs. Carol King, who had defended them all, promptly sought his release on bail, set to planning his defense...
...gave to the culture-curious and the culture-hungry a tent show of live entertainment that ranged from the Kaffir Boys' Choir to a course on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, from the measured comments of Viscount Bryce to the soaring platitudes of William Jennings Bryan. Carol Kennicott, the stifled and discontented heroine of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, went to Chautauqua in Gopher Prairie and "was impressed by the audience: the sallow women in skirts and blouses, eager to be made to think, the men in vests and shirtsleeves, eager to be allowed to laugh...
Authors Victoria and Robert Case (brother & sister) are far from agreeing with Carol Kennicott that Chautauqua was "nothing but wind and chaff and heavy laughter, the laughter of yokels at old jokes, a mirthless and primitive sound like the cries of beasts on a farm." We Called It Culture recalls how cheap and tedious Chautauqua could be at its worst. It also insists that at its best it brought to provincial society a leaven of excitement, entertainment and intellectual stimulus...