Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expediting the book lines, which last year moved with agonizing slowness, is an important feature of the renovations. As many students will recall, the first floor rear, regular book department was entirely inadequate both in September and February as a result of the huge influx of veterans...
...race against a "monstrous catastrophe" (the phrase was Premier Paul Ramadier's) began last week in Paris. The air in the Grande Salle a Manger du Ministre (which has eight huge chandeliers and only four windows) was bad; but the diplomatic atmosphere was better than at any international conference since the war's end. The delegates seemed permeated with the realization that they had to move fast to turn the "Marshall approach" into a plan for Europe; if they did not, the price of peace would go up and the hope of peace would go down (see WHAT...
...five years he had turned out the two works on which his fame still rests: Le Roi David and Pacific 231, a huffing, chuffing orchestral description of a locomotive getting under way. In his oratorio-like Le Roi David he perfected his own trick of plaiting two huge, serpentine strands of melody into a dissonant, sometimes arid, fabric of harmony. He went on to write some 60 works, including four symphonies, also twenty-odd French and English movie scores (Mayerling, Pygmalion), a medium which he prefers to opera...
...conductor, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, came with the founding of the school just before the war; and this season found more than even last year's record enrollment crowding school facilities for the first-of-July opening. With a solid week of student concerts already under its belt, the huge outdoor shed echoing to the myriad noises of tuning musicians, and the full-scale Berkshire Festival due to get underway, the Orchestra management announced last week final plans for the season...
Lindeners were basically easygoing, but could become aroused over really important issues. The streetcar company's attempts to cut down a huge and historic linden tree on its right of way provoked an epic battle which cut through religious, political and even family lines. So did the argument as to whether the turn of the century came on Jan. 1, 1900 or Jan. 1, 1901. Another question that provoked a fist fight: Can salmon best be grilled over birch or willow coals...