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Money, Money, Money. "I just don't believe in love any more," said Dorothy. Her voice had the gently feminine tone of a bent gong. "I'm looking for just one thing-money, money, money." She hadn't expected to attract so much attention, and she hoped it wouldn't embarrass her parents (with whom her children live). She favored a "decent type" for a husband, someone "not too old." And in a hurry. She had enough money to last about a week...
Written in 1917, "Les Noces" depicts Russian folk lore with a nationalist and unorthodex flavor. It is "sensational" music according to conductor Irving G. Fine '37, professor of Music, for the dissonant sounds produced by the preponderance of percussion make a "clamoring, gong-like music...
...Some people think it is the most important work Stravinsky ever wrote," Professor Fine went on, The opera, which was originally a ballet, calls for a mixed chorus of 60 voices with outside soloists plus four pianos and a percussion section which includes a tympani, bass drum, xylophone, chimes, gong, wood block cymbals, bell, side and snare drums and tamburines...
Saturday morning, the groggy traders tried to sell before the gong rang. In 20 minutes, May corn fell another 8? limit. One flustered trader put a sell order in the wrong pocket of his coat. Before he found it, the price drop had cost...
...noon, the closing gong ended the worst week the pits had seen in seven years. Cash wheat had fallen 41⅝? a bushel to $2.46½. Cash corn was down 49¾? to $2.13. In sympathetic spasms, almost every other commodity had tumbled with them. The stockmarket had steadied by week's end, but before it leveled off, the Dow-Jones industrial average had dropped 6.24 points to 168.81, lowest since June...