Word: comings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they spoke to the people inside whether they were for Labor or for the Tories. South Bradford's class distinctions are expressed, among other ways, by the people's attitude toward doors. Most working people-unlike those who consider themselves middle class-use the back door to come & go, reserving the front door for important occasions like funerals. If the canvassers found a front door opening stiffly and creakily, they were sure of finding a worker's family and pro-Labor sentiments behind it. But if the door moved easily on smooth-worn hinges, they were...
...provinces to collect support against the vile politicos plotting his overthrow. Flying to Copiapo to visit a copper smelter, he said: "I must be a gypsy traveling from town to town! They are plotting against me." At a banquet of Talca farmers he cried: "I haven't come in a peaceful mood but in one of war. I will kill or be killed...
...would some day return to these microphones. But the life of the true soldier of Christ is based on obedience and discipline . . . Our youths, with their eyes on material things, disdain the priesthood. But I, who have had in abundance all that our youths dream of possessing, have come to say to you that all the world's gold, fame, power, applause and pleasure is not equivalent to one hour in the service of Christ...
...Genius in the Pot? To most U.S. musicians and music lovers, the ascension of Charles Munch to the nation's most prestigious musical throne had come with the jolting surprise of one of Hector Berlioz' sudden bursts of brass...
...Francisco Symphony's conductor) let it sing modern music-Stravinsky, Falla, Honegger, Milhaud. Then, in 1924, began the 25-year reign of Serge Koussevitzky, onetime bass-viol virtuoso and one of the great conductors of his time. Under his stern but benevolent rule, the Boston had come to a peak of polished perfection, and U.S. composers, subsidized and encouraged with commissions, had found a new home...