Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place in Sever Quadrangle, traditional scene of Harvard graduations. Sanders Theatre, site of graduations inundated by rainy weather, will probably be the scene of the Navy ceremony if a deluge drives the men indoors. Despite the lack of color, the S-O's will not be deprived of stirring martial airs since the Navy Band is to be present...
...sound of martial music filled the Yard yesterday evening as 30 members of the University Band marched in with platoon formation and a lusty one, two, three, four, to serenade the members of the Naval School...
Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, facing court-martial (but probably not till the war's end) for alleged laxity in his command of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, got a job with the Manhattan firm of Frederic R. Harris, Inc., naval designers, doing "special work which the Navy insists must be kept secret...
...Seventh Symphony's proportions are heroic, most obviously so in the 27-minute first movement. The deceptively simple opening melody, suggestive of peace, work, hope, is interrupted by the theme of war, "senseless, implacable and brutal." For this martial theme Shostakovich resorts to a musical trick: the violins, tapping the backs of their bows, introduce a tune that might have come from a puppet show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel...
...Billy Mitchell's men are still on the job and they are in the top drawer of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Harold L. George, who testified for him in his court-martial in 1926, is a brigadier bossing the Ferrying Command. One of Mitchell's defense counsels, Annapolis-educated Lewis Hyde Brereton, is a major general in command of U.S. Air Forces in India and China. Another defense witness, Henry Harley Arnold, has gone farther than the rest...