Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minus one minute, Commander Murphy began to count in five-second intervals. When he reached "X minus 35 seconds," Milton Rosen of the Naval Research Laboratory ordered, "Recorders...
Beethoven: Serenade in D, Op. 25 (John Wummer, flute; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Columbia, 6 sides). Beethoven the charmer, instead of Beethoven the thunderer, in a performance that misses none of his smiles and gestures. Recording: good...
...easy. The program notes warned that "the title 'symphony' can only be broadly intended." There was little pure instrumental writing: the "symphony" was more a song cycle of 14 poems, from Spenser and Milton to W. H. Auden, to be sung by soloists and choruses, in various combinations and with a full orchestra. Britten had given the strings comparatively little to do; most of the burden fell on blaring brasses, on rustic horns and bucolic woodwinds. It was rich with unusual effects: while Soprano Frances Yéend sang John Clare's The Driving Boy, the chorus...
...Defeat. This is Merman's second try at radio. Back in 1935, she went on the air with a program broadcast at the same time as Major Bowes' Amateur Hour and went off, defeated, twelve weeks later. She is leery of television: "I did two shows with Milton Berle. On both of them he had horses in the act - and everything that goes with horses. We were so cramped backstage that I had only a screen for costume changes and an electrician practically held a light over me while I changed." She added reflectively: "There must...
...Milton Stanford, a practicing Pantheist,* was first elected to the town council of Brentwood, Md. two years ago. He was sworn in with an oath of office, customary in Brentwood, which contained the phrase "I believe in God." He made no objection at the time but, after thinking it over later on, decided he could not again honestly swear to the statement...