Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puccini: Tosco (Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Armando Borgioli; chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Rome, conducted by Oliviero de Fabritis; Victor Treasury series, 4 sides LP). Puccini's fieriest, reissued in the fine, robust performance that was a pre-LP highlight. Recording: good...
...Music Club Chorus under Peter Westergaard showed lovely tone quality and clearly-defined phrasing in the opening Palestina motet as well as in the difficult Machaut piece. Conductor Westergaard was enterprising as always in putting the program together and he carried it out with enthusiasm and understanding...
Modern U.S. educators are always trying to define the "aims" of education. But to a swelling chorus of critics, the definitions have a hollow sound. Last week, in an eloquent little book called Faith and Education (Abingdon-Cokesbury, $2), one of Manhattan's leading Protestant clergymen told why. The Rev. George A. Buttrick. longtime (25 years) pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, believes that modern education is nothing more than one gigantic evasion...
...Kirby flayed its leaders mercilessly. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, the last in 1928 for a pro-Al Smith cartoon, 'Tammany!", which showed a paunchy, string-tied figure labeled "G.O.P." raising his hands in horror at the very thought of Tammany Hall, while behind him stood an unsavory chorus of such figures as Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Attorney General Harry Daugherty and other Republicans implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. Next to the Depression itself, a Kirby cartoon ("Two Chickens in Every Garage") did as much as anything to defeat Herbert Hoover in 1932. After Repeal, which...
Justices Black, Douglas, Jackson and Reed dissented. The law, wrote Black, opens the door to censorship of newspapers, movies, radio, etc. "Sugar coating" the law, he said, by calling it a "group libel law . . . does not make the censorship less deadly." The minority was joined by a chorus of newspaper editorials. Said the Washington Post: "The court's decision . . . raises a disturbing question as to where such censorship will end." Added the Chicago Tribune, which rarely sees eye to eye with the Post: "The Illinois statute . . . could be interpreted to outlaw books and plays about Okies. To call something...