Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sister's death. Sister Lili died in 1918, a few years after winning the coveted Grand Prix de Rome.* Nadia considered her sister's talent greater than her own. In the large, cold chapel of Paris' La Trinite Church, 100 people gathered to attend a low Mass for Lili. As she does every year, Nadia Boulanger had arranged a music program in Lili's memory. Nadia sat in a front pew; she did not play the organ music-though she is a top organist...
What the press can do: 6. "We recommend that the agencies of mass communication accept the responsibilities of common carriers of information and discussion...
...noon today, Cambridge will be as quite as Dean Duhig's waiting room-and the mass exodus will be completed. The stagecoaches, mule teams, kiddie cars, atomic bombs, and shiny new Studebakers will have disappeared, and five thousand overworked undergraduates will be on their spring vacations...
Cornell University has for years immortalized undergraduate viscera on photographic plates, thereby unmasking many incipient diseases. Mass x-ray programs, recently inaugurated in Watertown and Somerville, have uncovered a numerically small but potentially serious number of cases of tuberculosis and lung tumor among men in their early twenties. Even veterans, recipients of pre-separation examinations, cannot feel completely sanguine about their physical condition, for their x-ray plates are inspected by busy and not always thorough medics, who view the whole procedure as a vexatious but necessary duty...
...less serious half of the concert, Eliot Carter's Tarantella; "Mater, Ades, Florum," precipitated a mass unrest in the graves of La Seala ghosts with its sometimes odd, other times uproarious parody of Latin opera. A tonor with a southern accent high-lighted the successful rendition of a somewhat redundant Gertrude Stein text set to Virgil Thomson music, and the Radcliffe group did nicely with Professor Ballantine's fine blending of music and words in Lake Werna's Water, a work dedicated to Professor Woodworth. A good performance of the Hindemith Choral Fugue ended the program...