Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airport, boarded the Sacred Cow for a flight to the Key West naval base.* His first day there, the President began wiping out the faint traces of strain from his Mexican trip and the feverish conferences on Greece by breaking a habit: he got up at 8 a.m. instead of his usual...
...early sign that he would follow the family calling. Educated at Groton and Harvard, his interests were literary and classical. For ten years, as a highbrow publisher (the Dial Press), his heart was in the highlands of Greece. Commuting between Manhattan and Connecticut, he read Ulysses' voyages instead of Dow-Jones averages...
Parisians were bewildered because the monkish composer, a devout, 38-year-old Catholic, punctuates his pious music with bird calls and Hindu rhythms. Instead of repose, listeners felt spastic jerkiness; instead of exalting sonorities, they heard grinding dissonance. After a performance of his Three Short Liturgies of the Divine Presence, which is scored (among other things) for a xylophone and two dried gourds with rattling seeds, one Paris critic snorted: "African witchcraft rather than Christian music...
Meanwhile, in Paris, Messiaen was composing a "very important work" commissioned by the Boston Symphony's Conductor Serge Koussevitzky. It is a symphony, he said, which will have eight movements instead of the usual four...
...from Shaw's Arms and the Man, is far from a blessing. But it need not be such a bore. Staged with style, spoofed with an air, its nose-tweaking of warriors and ear-pulling of the girls they left behind them could be pretty good fun. Instead, the current production has all the horsing, hamming and dismal vivacity of what is known as a routine revival...