Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purcell-Barbirolli: Suite for Strings, Horns, Flutes & English Horn (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting: Victor: 4 sides). Anthology in modern orchestral dress of music by England's great 17th-Century master. Brilliantly played and recorded...
...Lincoln and Joe Hill (Michael Loring, Cabaret TAC and singers from the Earl Robinson Chorus; Modern Records**) Two crusty proletarian items by Songwriters Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson...
Last week was published E. B. W.'s second slim collection of little prose pieces-most of them from the files of The New Yorker-which will please the melancholy humor of many a modern Jaques. E. B. W. dips the broken reed with which he writes into various liquids-diluted acid, crocodile tears, the milk of human kindness; and the thread of his writing is like the trail of a sometimes sympathetic, sometimes exasperating, always bewildered insect...
...critics called Josephine Herbst's The Executioner Waits one of the best novels of the year, ranked it and its predecessor, Pity Is Not Enough, just below the novels of John Dos Passes. A modern U. S. tragedy, told against a big background, these novels traced the history of the Pennsylvania-Dutch Trexler family from post-Civil War days to 1929, at once took rank as one of the best chronicles of a U. S. average family and a social...
...Dick Hough constituted the chief opposition to the Crimson, they had a very strong ally in good old Brokaw Pool--better known as simply old Brokaw Pool. This bath, built in the days when the trudgeon was man's fastest way of cleaving the waters, is not designed for modern intercollegiate swimming as most any Princeton man will readily admit. The tank is but four lanes wide and this narrowness results in a pretty rough surface when four sprinters are making their splashy way down the lanes...