Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States have cost the Senator votes and embarrassment by the out-of-place birth control issue, so have those who would seem to be his greatest backers cost Kennedy by their silence a chance for a commanding lead...
...Adagio for String Orchestra, the second movement of his String Quartet, Opus 11, which he later reorchestrated, was performed by the entire string section of the H.R.O. This lush work, somewhat trite in its impassioned repetitiousness and a bit too derivative in its handling of thematic material, requires much control of intonation and dynamics. The strings met its challenge well and, by the enormous crescendo near the end, their tone fairly shimmered with intensity...
...help the listener in his attempt to grasp the unprofound programmatic idea that Mr. Cutler seems to have had in mind. Yet, in spite of this immature approach to the subject that Mr. Cutler chose to pursue, the last two sections show that he has a fine control of the resources of an orchestra. The orchestral song based on a death in wartime is stunning and gripping in its controlled hysteria. The H.R.O. and Mr. Senturia acquitted themselves well as they put the often unrelated elements of Mr. Cutler's score into shape. The soloists, Jenneke Barton and Thomas Beveridge...
...School was organized five years ago to espouse and spread the libertarian philosophy of freedom from all institutional control and of men's absolute rights. It invites men and women from 16 to 60 to its five two-week summer sessions. Tuition and meals for two weeks cost only $150, and there is an essay contest for scholarship applicants...
Wartime experience, when demand is largely in the hands of the Federal Government, demonstrates the value of a realistic guide to such future events: it could assist authorities to control scarce materials, to encourage production or substitution for them well in advance, and to arrange for more imports...