Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exact, 64 years. Connie broke in as a catcher with the East Brookfield (Mass.) club in 1883, when catchers caught barehanded, on the first bounce...
...Carmelites frankly preferred the Shriners' circus in nearby Salinas. But those who gave Bach a try got preludes and fugues on the organ, cantatas, all the Brandenburg concertos and a few works by other 18th Century composers. The big event was two performances of the great B Minor Mass. It rated a B minus for Bach -the strings were uneven and the chorus occasionally mushy-but it deserved an A for effort...
...mostly townspeople, had rehearsed weekly since September, but not until just before the festival did Usigli gather, orchestra and chorus together for an exhausting rehearsal. Says he: "Community singing is fine, but it is best for Christmas carols. A local chorus can do Gilbert & Sullivan, but the B Minor Mass-ah! that is another matter. I have to extract something from these young people that they never knew they had. Sometimes I think that if they make love the way they sing, it must be horrible...
...Generation. In Chelsea, Mass., Miller Mitchell, 14, was just old enough, according to hospital regulations, to go in unescorted when he wanted to visit his 15-year-old wife and baby daughter...
...without understanding its context, performed in the end a deed of darkness." Another Pulitzer Prizewinner, JOHN P. MARQUAND, didn't believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very much after he's 40," but at 53 he was off to the marshes near Newburyport, Mass. to work on a new novel. At Santa Monica, Calif., KATHERINE ANNE PORTER had finished two-thirds of No Safe Harbor, a parable on fascism based on a diary she kept of a boat trip in 1931 from Veracruz to Bremerhaven...