Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Harvard's lightweight crew won the Thames Cup Race at Henley this summer, Coach Joe Brown resigned from his job to give more time to graduate Divinity studies. Although Brown's intention had been known for a long time, the H.A.A. still has not found a replacement...
...Ives (an insurance broker most of his active life), the symphony was, as Lennie remarked, "original, eccentric, naive and as full of charm as an old lace valentine." With his own special mixture of eloquence, charm and ham, Bernstein thus gave the Philharmonic an excitement that it has not known in years (he will give the talks only at the Thursday-night "previews"). Broadway Librettist Adolph Green put it most succinctly when he saw Bernstein backstage after the performance, stripped to the waist and being massaged by his wife. "Atta boy, Sugar," said Green. "You fought a good fight...
Menuhin, longtime Bartok specialist, opened the festival with the harsh and complex Sonata for Solo Violin. Menuhin let it be known that he will soon give the world premiere of a newly available early Bartok violin concerto,* which the composer dedicated to the late Hungarian-born violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom he was in love before his first marriage. Budapest audiences reserved their loudest cheers for the Juilliard group, which played Bartok's Third and Sixth quartets, plus works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, the U.S.'s Walter Piston and Leon Kirchner. The audience yelled so loudly for encores...
...evidence for this charge. Not so, says an exhaustive report from the National Cancer Institute : at most ages among the white population, the increase in the leukemia death rate has slowed down, and at some ages the rate has actually declined. (Among nonwhites the increase is continuing, for no known reason...
...they could be expressed meaningfully. Bosh, says the new school. Man is a blob, creeping and leaping about a world he cannot control, his words meaningless or hypocritical or both. The best thing a novelist can do, the argument runs, is to ditch the novel as it is now known and write a new kind that shows man as the pitiable blob he is. Two new books by two charter members of the blob school...