Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first day of the Convocation of Canterbury in Westminster's Church Assembly Hall-presided over by the Archbishop, Geoffrey Francis Fisher-the divines were discussing the report of a church commission on the Ministry of Healing. The Venerable Maxwell Dunlop, 59, archdeacon of Aston, rose to express his distress at the report's appendix on the subject of exorcism. "Apparently no member of the commission has questioned whether demons really exist," said Archdeacon Dunlop...
Threni opens with the chorus singing mournfully over the sighing orchestra, gradually builds to a moving tenor solo, accompanied by the Flügelhorn, to the text, "Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress." In one passage of labyrinthine difficulty the two tenors and two basses sing two separate canons simultaneously. Except for the second section of the third elegy, the tempo is funereal, and throughout the mood is unrelievedly austere. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the piece is that despite the rigidities of the tone-row technique (and for the first time Stravinsky used all twelve tones...
...relieve the "genuine distress" of the lead and zinc industry. President Eisenhower announced the expected quotas that will cut imports of the two metals 33% from their current levels. Set at 80% of the 1953-57 average, the quotas will allow imports of 354,720 short tons of lead, v. a five-year average of 481,638 tons, and 520,960 short tons of zinc, v. a five-year average-of 651,200 tons...
Dracones have proved to be surprisingly seaworthy. A 67-ft. model was towed out into a full gale and showed no signs of distress, although the tug that towed it had to run for shelter. When making a sharp turn, a Dracone does not swing like a ship; its fabric forms a kink that moves from bow to stern...
...Last week Schenley President Lewis S. Rosenstiel said that his fight was not for Schenley alone, pointed out that virtually every distilling stock has risen since Congress acted, many to new highs. (Schenley's rose the most, from 18½ earlier this year to 31½.) Distress selling of whisky to collect the tax is now over, said Rosenstiel, and there is no reason for "senseless" price wars...