Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's other first-rank universities devoted great efforts to such a program. There is clearly both a need and facilities for an expanded offering at Harvard of specific courses at the graduate level in the cultures, characteristics, and problems of European and Asiatic nations. In recent years the movement of emigrant scholars to Cambridge has provided the University with a distinguished array of experts on foreign countries. A course of study so vitally important to successful completion of national policy would surely attract governmental support, and the system of visiting experts in Littauer's seminars can well be applied...
Lately there has been a very strong movement to ban corsages from the Spring dances. As yet, no definite agreement has been arrived at, though many feel that a determined policy against pin-ons should be agreed to before the dances begin, thus ensuring that no one will arrive with one, and ergo no one's feelings will be hurt. Moreover, they feel this is a good way to cut expenses, especially luxuries in time...
...prop up his sagging material by orthodox sonata devices which often retard the music rather than help it. Beethoven in the Ninth, however, despite the massiveness of much of the thematic material and the lengthened time-scale, has managed to keep a perfect equilibrium between the parts. The choral movement, one of the most exhausting twenty minutes of singing in musical literature, from a purely musical standpoint develops logically from the rest of the symphony, but, in my opinion, does not quite equal the other three movements in inspiration...
Some reactionaries, no doubt the same ones who are against opera in English or Goodman playing Mozart, don't like the choral movement merely because it is choral, and therefore not "pure" music. In this particular movement, however, Beethoven used his chorus symphonically, thus keeping the musical design intact, and making good use of the vibrant sonority of the human voice which remains the most basically expressive of all musical instruments...
...facilitate free movement of the officers of the University during times of blackout or air raid. Official Identity Cards have been made available for them it was announced this week. These cards will give the bearer the right to move at will during a blackout...