Word: jeremiahs
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...promised that the city workers in Cambridge would be the best payed in the state. The workers then agreed to wait until the "cherry-sheets" arrived. "We will see if the city manager will support our interest as he has supported the interests of the masters," concluded Jeremiah F. Sheah, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. representative...
...compositions to date have no common voice, they have several common denominators. There is almost always a strong, healthy pulse of percussion. There is drama and wit. There is an invitation, even in solemn moments, to the dance. And there is song. In his first symphony, Jeremiah, Bernstein offered, along with Biblical rumblings and stylized Semitic murmurs, some beautifully sad and soaring melodies for soprano. In his most recent serious work. Serenade for Violin Solo, String Orchestra and Percussion, the Bernstein song ? immensely more mature now ? has been transferred to the violin; it is a highly impressive piece...
...there is a character who can be called central, he is Crooked Creek's Preacher Prescott, who knows that "all of this short life [is] a leavetaking, while you hang on, saying No, not yet." Preacher Prescott, both a Job and a Jeremiah, is summoned to his church in the dead of one night by the clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads...
...solidly rooted in the artistic techniques of both Italy and northern Europe. His early teacher in Leiden had studied in Italy, there learned Caravaggio's trick of sharply contrasting light and shadow, to make light itself the most dramatic element in the picture. Rembrandt's painting, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, done when the artist was only 24, already shows both Rembrandt's love of Biblical subjects and the virtuoso control of light that gives his oils the intensity of molten gold...
This evening, CBS television interviewed two undergraduates, Father Halton, and Jeremiah S. Finch, Dean of the College, on its nationally-broadcast Douglas news program. Dean Finch said that Princeton had seen speakers come and go, and that if students "cannot be safely permitted to hear speakers the University might as well go out of the business of education...