Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Furtwangler's memory was musty: A'ida was a hit from the first, Carmen and La Boheme only middling flops compared with La Traviata and The Barber of Seville, which were at first all but hooted off the stage...
...first issues will carry no advertising. Explain the editors: "When twelve issues of The Reporter have been published, we will know who reads our magazine, and what they think of it . . ." But until The Reporter knew the audience it was aiming at, it was not likely to make a hit...
What Artie finally hit them with...
Furtwängler hit harder: "Each great work of tonal music radiates deep, unshakable peace, like the majesty of God. This peace is lacking in atonal music [which] has grown restless. There is a lot of intellect and combination, there is plenty of intelligence, but ängler, listening to atonal music is like "walking through a dense forest; strange flowers are lining the path; you don't know whence you come and you don't know whither...
Like Father. The most successful of the young crop is lean, 28-year-old Dr. Gary Middlecoff, the Memphis dentist. When he gets set to hit a tee-shot, the stock gag with his fellow pros is: "This won't hurt a bit... Ouch!" He has a loose swing, hits a long straight ball, steadies down under pressure like a real pro, works well on the greens with his unorthodox putter (a gooseneck with the blade extending forward from the shaft instead of backward...