Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that this conductor was a "hypnotist," whether he could interpret Debussy, whether he wagged his head. They noted that he had a good back. They noted that every now and then, when he wanted to indicate a sudden pianissimo, he shot his left hand into the air, palm flat, in the way of one who hoists a heavy tray or thrusts a torch aloft. For the rest, his gestures were continent. He led Debussy's Nuages; Honegger's Pacific 231, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy. Like a storm of white hail came the clapping. With inexorable...
...strength by such extra-constitutional means. To justify his methods he has brought forth a succession of bug-bears which he pointed to as the reason and the justification of his violent tactics. But each scare must of necessity be greater than the previous one, or it will fall flat. The supply of scares is limited, and so is the gullibility of the masses. By their exuberant methods the Fascisti have convinced the rest of the people as well as themselves that violence is the natural instead of the exceptional method of settling controversies, and Mussolini could...
Corrigan of Springfield carried individual honors in the Freshman meet. He led O'Neil by four seconds, his time being 19 minutes flat, but O'Neil broke a shoe-lace in the last half-mile and this was largely responsible for his defeat. The second Springfield man took fifth place and then after a long string of Crimson runners, three Springfield men took twelfth, thirteenth, and fifteenth...
...Stabler '26 won the finals of the University Singles in 3 minutes flat. Lendon Snedeker '25 was only three-fourths of a length behind the winner. Over a slightly shortened course Theodore Frothingham '27 won the University Broad Compromise race. He covered the distance in 3 minutes and 15 seconds...
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall, the fourth pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Mr. Koussevitzky. The program is comprised of Weber's Overture to "Oberon", Roussel's Symphony in B-flat and three excerpts from Wagner: the "Venusberg music" from "Tannhacuser"; Siegfried's Funeral March from "Goetterdaemerung", and the Prelude to "Die Meistersinger...