Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Menuhin, longtime Bartok specialist, opened the festival with the harsh and complex Sonata for Solo Violin. Menuhin let it be known that he will soon give the world premiere of a newly available early Bartok violin concerto,* which the composer dedicated to the late Hungarian-born violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom he was in love before his first marriage. Budapest audiences reserved their loudest cheers for the Juilliard group, which played Bartok's Third and Sixth quartets, plus works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, the U.S.'s Walter Piston and Leon Kirchner. The audience yelled so loudly for encores...
...cannot be completely sure just why lacrosse and golf were singled out for especially harsh treatment...
...large and sprawling organization, such as the Athletic Department, on a tight budget. For one thing, nobody can predict in advance the extent of the income to be derived from football gate-receipts. This depends on team performance, weather, and other such imponderables. It is too easy to be harsh about H.A.A. finances; and it is sometimes unfair...
...wrote, "cannot be legally operated with any public funds as segregated private schools. Consequently, the real issue before the voters of this district . . . will be whether we shall open our schools under the court-approved plan of limited integration or close them altogether . . We regret that the alternatives are harsh, but nevertheless, as attorneys and citizens we feel compelled to take our stand for public education...
...mane wagged damply beneath a fly-blown Stetson. "All of that and all of that." The waving arms and lying words swished briefly before gaudy posters of improbable freaks. Somehow, out of the rain-bedraggled midway of the Gratz (Pa.) Fair, a crowd gathered. It always does when the harsh, vocal magic of Colonel Lew Alter begins to turn the tip (con the rubes) into his new "Can It Be Possible?" show...