Word: haphazards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Diamond's Fourth Symphony received its first local hearing. It seemed to be a haphazard series of contrasts between loud and soft, fast and slow, brass and strings. I could detect no unity, form, or logical direction. Perhaps I am wrong; I hope so. The orchestra gave what sounded like a polished, authoritative presentation. The lower strings, rich and solid, have never sounded better...
...moves had to be approved by the other club owners of the American and National Leagues. The American League owners struck first. After a long, wrangling meeting in Tampa, Fla. this week, they announced their decision: Veeck's plan to switch the Browns to Baltimore was "hasty and haphazard...
There's generally a special air of excitement about musical contest. The Pierian's annual concerto auditions, held last Wednesday was true to form. The haphazard conglomeration of all kinds of instruments and music gave it the air of a variety show. A member of the audience can play the sometimes frustrating game of keeping his own scoreboard. When it's all over, he can praise or condemn the judges' decision...
...state of the Harvard curriculum. "In the college today," the report declared, "there is too much teaching and too little studying." The report went on to state that students were spending as little as 3 1/2 hours a week on courses. It also criticized the elective system for allowing haphazard choosing of courses based on how easy they were or what hours they met. The report also brought to light the surprising number of students who were getting through college in three years...
...civilization's attics are its museums. Here yesterday's knickknacks are squirreled away, in the somewhat less haphazard hope that some of them will turn to treasure. The custodians of civilization's attics must be knowledgeable men, able to tell a hawk from a handsaw, for their yesterday goes back to history's dawn, and their attic's room-like their budget -is strictly limited. Peering at relics is an increasingly popular pastime, for mankind is increasingly curious about the past, and its tenacious connection with the present. This is the case for museums...