Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church membership last year was 2,190,164, or 2.8% -more than equaling the estimated 1.7% population gain. This represents a total of 79,576,352 members, or 53.3% of the total population, the largest proportion of U.S. citizens ever yet recorded as church members. In the good old days of the old-time religion, the unchurched were far more numerous: in 1880 only 19.9% of the population were official church members; by 1900 the figure was 34.7%, and by 1920 it had risen only...
...short, concluded Critic Breeskin, "The guy's good...
Beethoven: Serenade in D, Op. 25 (John Wummer, flute; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Columbia, 6 sides). Beethoven the charmer, instead of Beethoven the thunderer, in a performance that misses none of his smiles and gestures. Recording: good...
Brahms: Tragic Overture (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 4 sides). The competition is tough (Beecham, Toscanini), but this performance stands with the best of them. Recording: good...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugen Jochum conducting; Deutsche Grammophon, 21 sides). Like most of the music of the controversial Viennese master, this mammoth symphony floats along endlessly, passing places of beauty. Performance and recording: good...