Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nevertheless drawn more often than not, like Bach's B-Minor Mass, into the happy and festive key of D-Major. Performance enormously impressive. First two parts conducted by Cornelia Davenport, last three by Allan Miller. Choristers obviously very carefully rehearsed; tone lacked full-bodied resonance, but mustn't expect from them the quality of Mr. Woodworth's varsity singers. Vocal soloists adequate for the most part. No small amount of the overall impressiveness due to the marvelous parts for trumpets and timpani-now menacing, now jubilant. James Armstrong at the organ a most effective substitute for string orchestra...
Concert of three of the most meaty and grand violin-and-piano sonatas in Paine Hall Friday: the Brahms A-Major, Prokofiev D-Major, and Bee-thoven C-Minor. More laurels to Dunster pianist Robert Freeman for the impeccable and consistently compelling performance that we have come to expect of him. Violinist David Spencer, a Wesleyan junior, left much to be desired. His playing lacked tension, was matter-of-fact and on the surface, and at times harsh and out of tune. He is definitely no Heifetz or Hurwitz...
Moscow's encouragement of anti-Stalinism, for all its unpredictability, is leading optimistic young Poles to expect many more, possibly faster and bigger, changes. The police apparatus is already less noticeable, check points on routes into Warsaw have been removed, a few passports for travel abroad are being issued, and party members are acting more humanly...
...Paris, placing a telephone call is often a deeply traumatic experience. Parisian operators (les telephonistes) are not the sweet-voiced type that U.S. subscribers have come to expect. Les telephonistes harangue callers with invective, cut them off constantly, allow ringing signals to keep blasting even after parties are connected, often forget entirely about completing a call or calling back. Long-suffering Paris subscribers were taking dubious consolation last week in the news that the terrible-tempered telephone girls are probably in worse shape than the targets of their abuse. After 24 months of studying some 120 operators...
Coach Bruce Munro asserted last night that "the varsity could do well, but no matter how well we do we are still over-matched. Since Yale is leading the league and we're just out of the cellar, I don't see how we can expect too much...