Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Diamond's Fourth Symphony received its first local hearing. It seemed to be a haphazard series of contrasts between loud and soft, fast and slow, brass and strings. I could detect no unity, form, or logical direction. Perhaps I am wrong; I hope so. The orchestra gave what sounded like a polished, authoritative presentation. The lower strings, rich and solid, have never sounded better...
...best work, to be sure, but it is head and shoulders above anything else you are going to find at your local book merchant's until Orwell' executors publish a new collection of his essays...
...Diet, all opposition parties ganged up on Yoshida's plan to take Japan's police and school systems out of the hands of local government, where the U.S. occupation placed them, and set them under the national government. The Yoshida program, they said, was a reversion to "evils of the past." Needled by opposition, delays, Yoshida lost his temper, called an opposition member an idiot. In the excessively polite Japanese language, this was an insult indeed. Though he hastily apologized, the opposition pressed home a vote of censure, followed it up with the nonconfidence motion. Yoshida thereupon dissolved...
...Construction of a theatre," he added, "should be a spur to dramatic activity at Harvard, and this should be an integral part of undergraduate life. The necessity for local dramatic activity is especially acute since the demise of the Brattle Theatre last fall...
Protest against investigation of subversives in local colleges began yesterday when members of the Law School Civil Liberties Union began circulating a petition affirming that "there is no need for any committee to investigate this University...