Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guard got the best of the mob, and emboldened police started dragging the most obstreperous young fellows out of the crowd. They took their prisoners over to look at a line of wounded Guardsmen, then loaded them into paddy wagons. Totals for Cicero's three violent nights: 23 hurt, 119 arrested...
...Harmonies. Where other composers were satisfied with the conventional scale of seven basic tones (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti), Schoenberg insisted on discarding "key" and exploring the potential scale of twelve tones (i.e., the full chromatic scale in an octave). The result hurt people's ears. "Just dissonance," they said, or, more simply, "Just noise." Schoenberg stuck to his guns, demanded the "emancipation of dissonance." Discords can become new harmonies, he said. He found a few disciples. The best known: Alban Berg, composer of the twelve-tone opera Wozzeck (TIME, April 23). New music, Schoenberg insisted, "must...
...length and in Technicolor, the film shows that sororities have their points, e.g., a cozy sense of belonging, but none to offset the hurt they inflict on the girls they turn down, or to justify the snobbish values they set up. It pictures the societies through the bright eyes of Freshman Jeanne Grain, who comes to a Midwestern university all atwitter to join Upsilon Upsilon Upsilon...
When Max Westfield comes along, she marries him-mainly for his money. Max, a widower, is an easygoing, openhearted American, born to be humiliated. While he is at war, she has an affair with another man and bears him a child. Deeply hurt, Max nevertheless accepts the child...
Before the Senate Finance Committee last week appeared Cincinnati's John F. Lebor, representing some 1,000,000 members of the American Retail Federation and the Retail Industry Committee. His group had once opposed a national retail sales tax because they thought it would hurt their business. But now, Lebor told the committee, which is considering the pending tax bill (TIME, June 25), retailers want Congress to pass a retail sales tax. They think it would hurt them-and the rest of business-less than the sky-high corporate and individual rates in the pending bill. The new rates...