Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arbitrate. That is the way you do it. You are asking for a fight and, brother, you are going to get it, and if it is the last thing we do, brother, we are going to sweat this one out to the bitter end. . . The whole American labor movement is behind us. We are backed to the last goddam inch...
...among Mendelssohn's lesser works. Written at an early age, (Opus 12), it could only have been picked of the Quartet because of its opportunities for technical virtuosity. In deed, Cellist Mischa Schneider, perhaps the most impressive of he four, makes the most of his opportunity. The second movement, a Canzonetta, provides him with a superlative vehicle for pizzicato and upper register proficiency. Violist Boris Kroyt gets his chance to highlight the otherwise lifeless Brahms B-flat Quartet...
Another surprising feature of this last quartet is that it contains no slow movements. Perhaps, however, the Budapest's slow playing of the allegretto second movement was justified, and provided a greater variety than if it has been played as originally indicated...
When Hitler came, Figl, who opposed Anschluss, obscurely and honorably disappeared into concentration camps, first Dachau, then Flossenburg. After six years the Nazis slipped up, set him free. Promptly Figl set to work as an organizer in what little underground movement Austria developed. He represented the Austrian resistance in contacts with the much stronger Polish underground. After liberation he founded the Volkspartei of small agrarians, much like Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...
...which keeps a close eye on Austrian developments, was delighted with Figl's victory. Informally, Vatican circles last week called it "clear proof of Austria's intention to tread the middle path between leftist extremism and out-of-date conservatism in harmony with the great, widespread European movement, now apparent, toward progressive moderation...