Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale-Penn monopoly, which was supposed to be the main feature of the Ivy League get-together, failed to materialize, and Jaakko Mikkola's men filled in the gap, running pretty close to the program lined up for them by the genial Finn...
...warm share of Sal's appeal is owing to the man it celebrates: genial, sentimental, gargantuan (300 lb.) Paul Dresser, onetime minstrel, most popular song writer of the '90s, and oldest brother of lugubrious Novelist Theodore Dreiser (who kept the original family name). Dreiser, who wrote the first verse and the chorus of one of his brother's best songs (On the Banks of the Wabash), also wrote the story on which Sal is based...
...upheld the power of the States to outlaw ASCAP by barring price-fixing; the networks won hands down in this fight against ASCAP's high-priced terms. No longer a monopoly, it had to scratch for its feed. Its 1,510 members needed new dignity and new leaders. Genial, dictatorial Gene Buck stood for the old regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting, in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, an enthusiastic ASCAPite proposed that the assembled members rise and intone "God bless Buck" three times. In the confusion that followed, President Buck blushed deeply...
Sample Komroff characterizations: Pilate as a genial, well-meaning Roman lawyer who is constantly having to cope with fanatics; Matthew as a tax collector so harried by his job that Christ's call comes as a welcome relief; Lazarus as a rich young Jewish cosmopolite whose death is caused by a chariot race he entered on the urging of his crony Pilate...
...contest, held by a musicians' committee "to aid Spanish democracy," was over. The prize had gone to a young, unknown composer, William Schuman, for his Second Symphony. But the promised publication and performance never materialized. One of the sympathetic judges, genial, large-nosed Composer Aaron Copland, sent Schuman a post card, "Why don't you send your score to Serge Koussevitzky?" He did, and within a week got a letter from Koussevitzky asking for the parts. A performance followed that fall. Since then Koussevitzky has championed William Schuman's music. The Boston Symphony introduced his Third Symphony...