Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stretch on the cool grass, commune with the innumerable pretty girls, as well as to hear the pleasant, undemanding music played by Arthur Fielder and his Boston Symphony group. Just as the concert began, a full moon rose from behind Boston's buildings, and from the Charles came a light breeze to mitigate the day's blistering heat. As the sky grew darker, and the trees lining the river became black silhouettes, any regular concert-goers present probably were irritated by the rise and fall of chatter and the calls of newsboys stepping over people's legs and bodies...
...from tapping their feet inaudibly on the grass, waving their hands to and fro, or humming partly under their breath. Fielder left classic decorum to the academicians of music, and played with liveliness and humor that did justice to the intention of almost every one of these composers of light concert music. Only the sturdy grandeur of Sibelius' "Finlandia" suffered from the rendition...
...year's first run on what the trade calls "hammock literature" was reported by one bookstore. Comes the hot weather, they said, and college students start to catch up on their light reading. Arnold Toynbee's "Study of History" was named as a definitely cold weather book, while the sweltering reader picks up P. G. Wodehouse, or Faith Baldwin...
First organized in 1929, these open-air concerts have become a regular feature of the season. Selections will range from light works to heavy overtures, including popular Strauss waltzes, some of Chopin's better known works, and other classical music under the baton of conductor Arthur Fediler...
...kind to an escaped convict on the marshes. The convict is given his freedom in Australia, and he never forgets Pip. The other plot concerns a woman, who since her bridegroom failed at her wedding years before, has never seen the light of day. She lives in her bridal dress in a room that still contains the banquet table complete with wedding cake. Pip is summoned to talk to her once a week, and there he meets a beautiful girl, Estella, who is being trained by the old lady to revenge her on men. But Pip loves her right through...