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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invited to the Festival by friends, soft-spoken Dorothy Maynor wangled a chance to sing for Koussevitzky. When her big, velvety voice swung out in a brace of difficult Lieder, ceremonious Koussevitzky threw up his hands, cried: "A native Flagstad!" Next day, at a private picnic given by Koussevitzky to the members of the orchestra and a few hand-picked critics and musicians, Soprano Maynor, perfectly poised, warbled faultless coloratura, crooned deep Lieder, went to town on a Wagnerian Ho-yo-to-ho. The gilt-edged professional audience marveled at her versatility and easy form, found her rich voice...
...enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States. But the leaders of the movement against New Deal fallacies must have the courage to incur the unlimited displeasure of every vested interest whose selfish purposes conflict with a radical policy of reform. Furthermore, they must work out the very difficult problem of continuing an adequate provision for the less fortunate people through Relief, old age pensions, subsidized housing and the like on the one hand, while on the other restoring financial solvency and the spirit of business initiative and expansion which only can cure unemployment...
...last scheduled foreign policy debate before Parliament adjourns this week for three months. Besides discussing the dispute with Japan and the prospects of an alliance with Russia he generalized on the state of the world. Unlike 1938, when he was optimistic, Mr. Chamberlain this week found it "difficult to see" how the world armament race could be solved except "by war itself." But he hoped that a way might yet be found out of the "present nightmare into the sunlight of peace...
...such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony Gallicisms as chic, enceinte and demimonde. Some foreign terms are handy: "Hors d'oeuvre is a useful word and not difficult to say, but it looks conspicuously un-English. If menu makers would spell it orderve, we could all be happy with...
...studies on the violin. When the charitable music school which takes him in finds itself in an understandable financial jam, Heifetz is touched for a $5 bill, promises to attend the school's concert if he can. Although making him keep this amiable promise proves fully as difficult as it would be in real life, Heifetz does keep it, ends the picture in the musical blaze of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto...