Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stickler for detail, he usually rehearses the orchestra for two hours, but for special programs, like his Roméo et Juliette broadcasts, he sometimes works over singers and orchestra from 2 p.m. until midnight. Afterwards he takes home recordings of the rehearsal, to check the orchestral balance. He allows radio engineers no easy tricks either. In La Traviata, a chorus is supposed to approach from afar. A simple way to get the radio effect was to have the chorus stand still and sing with increasing volume; Toscanini insisted that the chorus go off stage, approach gradually...
Swami Yogananda belongs outside the most publicized U.S. Indian movement-the Vedanta-which includes Huxley, Isherwood, et al. He is also scorned by them. Yogananda, born plain Mukunda Lai Ghosh 46 years ago, is the son of the vice president of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. Father Ghosh scorned money, food and sex, spent his free hours meditating, with his legs crossed. Both father & mother Ghosh were devout practitioners of the basic tenet of yoga: absolute discipline of the body and senses through concentration on the idea of union with God. "Your father and myself," said Mrs. Ghosh, "live together...
After six weeks of acrimonious hearings (TIME, Feb. 10 et seq.), the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee voted this week, 8-to-1, for confirmation of David E. Lilienthal as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Ohio's John Bricker was the sole dissenter...
McCloy knew why Washington Publisher Eugene Meyer had quit as the Bank's president last December and why two other men had subsequently turned down the job (TIME, Dec. 16, et seq.) Under the rules, the Bank's president could be held responsible if the Bank's loans went bad. But the Bretton Woods charter did not give him nearly enough power to go with his heavy responsibilities. He took all his orders from the Bank's twelve full-time executive directors, one from each of twelve member nations...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Symphonic Piece from Franck's Redemption; Debussy's La Mer; excerpts from Dukas' opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...