Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performed by Bernstein and his beefed-up 112-man orchestra. Constant's starkly atonal 24 Preludes lasted a scant 13 minutes. They were played without pauses, ranged in mood from misty delicacy to raucous riots of sound. One prelude, which Boxing Fan Constant called "The Punch." had a hard. loud, opaque sound, lasted for all of six seconds. In another, the musicians found themselves playing 56 parts simultaneously. At concert's end the audience shrieked and bravoed. the critics registered approval, and Conductor Bernstein acknowledged that he found the whole business "interesting'' and "searching...
...search for truth, and as such he is the envy of all those in our society who are paid to obscure or distort it. He is the only one who is paid to be as honest, as simple, and as serious as he can . . . The work is indeed hard, as it must be since its purpose is to transform a child into a man; but there is no work that makes so happy those who do it well . . . The best teacher is willing to be forgotten. His only reassurance needs to be the faith that somehow his efforts have increased...
...booked solid until January. Despite poor reviews, The World of Suzie Wong is sitting pretty, with 282 parties. Chances are that Rodgers' & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song will be a hit anyway, but parties already account for $700,000 in advance sales. In fact, it is so hard for ordinary customers to get Broadway tickets that R. & H. have called a halt to further parties. Complains Renée Schonceit, one of Broadway's top ticket brokers: "Why, for Marriage-Go-Round, we can't get people tickets to the men's room; they...
...United Fruit, citing fruit damage from wind storms, cut its dividend from 75? to 50?. American Telephone & Telegraph declared the same $2.25 quarterly dividend it has paid for 37 years, despite a spate of rumors of a raise. But stockholders have fared well this year despite dividend cuts in hard-hit industries. The New York Stock Exchange reported that cash dividends on common stocks for the first three quarters set a record high of $6.4 billion, up $11.2 million from...
...Western have been conducting merger studies among themselves since 1956, and the Lackawanna and the Erie got permission from the ICC in July to coordinate some facilities and operations in New York State. With the Erie and Lackawanna operating in the red and the more financially stable Delaware & Hudson hard hit by losses on a coal subsidiary, the proposal would combine three fairly weak roads into a network with assets of $952 million and 5,377 miles of main track in seven states, some of which could be eliminated in a merged line...