Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Century composers as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (both previously considered horrible examples of bourgeois sentimentality), got themselves a new approved list of less modernistic composers. First to shine among the new group was young Ivan Dzerzhinsky, whose melodious, folk-song-inspired opera And Quiet Flows the Don was contrasted favorably with that "muddle of sound, raucous cacophony and lascivious naturalism," Lady Macbeth. Most talented of the new group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed by critics at its Manhattan première last year as one of the finest contemporary...
...case of point four, the vote of the last general meeting was reversed, so that the H.S.U. stood in favor of having all troops withdrawn from abroad...
...name, Bette (pronounced Betty), was a custom-made diminutive of Elizabeth. Her full name is Ruth Elizabeth, after her mother, Ruth Elizabeth Favor Davis. When Bette was eight her parents were divorced.* Thereafter Bette & Barbara lived with Mrs. Davis, known affectionately as Ruthie...
...During a coast-to-coast broadcast from Hollywood last week, John McCormack, famed Irish-born tenor, offered himself as a Presidential candidate to succeed de Valera-providing 1) a naturalized citizen of the U. S. is eligible for the position and 2) the de Valera and Cosgrave opposition parties favor him. Said he: "Many of my friends in Ireland have written me to throw my hat in the ring...
Professor Fay stated that the union of Austria and Germany has "shifted the balance of power in Europe in favor of Germany and of might over right, but the Ansehluss will increase the problem of feeding the 78 million Germans in the enlarge Retch. Austria's foreign trade and tourist traffic will suffer severely because Hitler will clamp down the right German system of currency control and foreign trade regulation...