Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actions designed to bring convalescing patients "closer to college life," while at the same time providing them with "pleasant evening entertainment" were revealed last night as the Crimson Network and Phillips Brooks House announced the beginning of a complete and individual radio service which will eventually extend to each of Stillman Infirmary's 36 hospital beds...
...Haydn 88th suffered from irregular placement and use of stringed instruments. If the string section of the orchestra were cut in half, so as to bring it closer to Haydn's original instrumentation, the beautiful wood-wind figurations might be heard, and the temptation to blasting fortissimi would be eliminated. Koussevitzky's Haydn is pleasant, but it could be memorable...
...Ganges has mouths. When they repeated to each other (as they often did) that now at last Britain's colonial policy had lumbered to the point where Whitehall really wanted to free India, hope revived. When they reflected (as they often did) that civil war had never been closer, despair reached .its depth. The issue seemed to turn on one man-Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Last week all India watched Jinnah's words and actions...
Missouri-born Benton repented his bohemian foibles and turned to painting what the Met's Director Francis Henry Taylor describes as "the ample American landscape" (he concentrated on harvest scenes). But even after they returned to Manhattan, most of his Paris friends felt themselves closer to Paris than to the prairie, and some brilliant stay-at-homes (Burchfield, O'Keeffe) felt the same...
Thomas Finletter, New York attorney and author of the book "Can Representative Government Do the Job?," opened the forum with an attack on the existing relations between the Executive and Legislative branches of government, which he termed "government by conflict." We must "bring the President and Congress into closer collaboration with each other," he added...