Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retrospectively one could be grateful to Walter Piston for the long, flowing lines in his Third Quartet, which opened the program. As a member of the Harvard music faculty, and thus a host with appropriate deference to his guests, he perhaps cast this work in a less massive and less ambitious mold than some of his other works. But here were the familiar urbanity and affability, and the unadventurous continuation of Romantic tradition, strikingly fused with a wholly contemporary, classical economy, and the accompanying sense of fitness and of the exact point of surfeit...
While he was at it, Stassen had asked Stalin about censorship. "It will be difficult in our country to dispense with censorship," his host told him. "Molotov tried to do it several times. ... In the autumn of 1945 censorship was repealed. I was on leave and they started to write stones that Molotov forced me to go on leave and then wrote stories that I should return and fire him. These stories depicted the Soviet Government as a sort of zoological garden. Of course, our people got angry and they had to resume censorship...
Simmons College will play host to the all-day conference, which opens in the early afternoon with a series of round table discussions on specific aspects of the minority problem...
...feels very positive toward this country." With his second wife Ise he likes to ride horseback by the shore of Walden Pond, a stone's throw from his home. "I'm so acquainted with the Massachusetts landscape," he laughs, "I know the foxes and grouse personally." An untiring host for visiting Europeans and student disciples, he is a connoisseur of French foods and the delicate Continental wines of which there are "only imitations in this country but for one I have discovered in the Finger Lakes of New York State." Those who meet him and withdraw at an apparent forbidding...
...Thursday, Robert S. Hirschfield '50 and Oliver K. Burrows, Jr. '50 will play host to a Princeton team; while Friday will see two Crimson dues square off against Yale, one in New Haven and the other here...