Word: majority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serve metropolitan Boston effectively, the MTA should construct new lines, perhaps utilizing railroad rights of way. The Authority did expand successfully over the tracks of a former narrow gauge railroad to East Boston and Revere, thus starting subway service to an expanding part of the city. A second major attempt at expansion has not succeeded, however. For $10.6 million, the MTA purchased and renovated completely a branch of the New York Central Railroad, and within two days after service started, the new line carried four times as many passengers as the railroad did. Yet this seemingly successful extension is reportedly...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Berwald, Symphony no. 6 in E flat; Ives, Violin sonata no. 4; Beethoven, Mass in C major; Faure, Piano quartet in C minor, no. 1; A. Scarlatti, Sinfonia in D minor; Schubert, String quartet no. 13; Messaien, Oiseaux exotiques...
...other major sport is the spectator so intimately connected with the events of the game. Players wander among the crowd, the stands are within ten feet of the field, and the absence of protective equipment renders nearly every participant's expression visible to the observers...
...lecture," said another, "we read portions of six major novels. After the class, students were asking each other how Middlemarch and the rest ended. Their curiosity had been stimulated...
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). Last September's Venice concert on film, Lenny will play, conduct and analyze Mozart's Piano Concerto in G Major...