Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week, the American Communist Party had pretended to be a homegrown movement, with no roots in Moscow. President Truman, who only three months ago had denounced the Communist spy investigation as a red herring, had the word to describe U.S. Communists. Said he: "I have no comment on the statements by traitors...
What may blow Bavaria's political circus to kingdom come is a social revolution, of which the first rumblings can already be heard. Bavaria's prewar population of some 7,000,000 has now hit the 9,000,000 mark. The new millions, reversing the Teutonic movement that for decades pressed eastwards, come from the once-great pockets of German population in East Europe. Impoverished, rootless, and angry with the world, they present smug, insular Bavaria with a screaming problem of psychological and physical adjustment. They need jobs, housing, security...
Since October, he has played in 56 U.S. cities and gotten rave notices in all of them for his Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Mendelssohn. Last week, his powerful playing of the Tchaikovsky concerto had a usually unemotional Houston subscription audience shattering tradition and applauding after the first movement. At the end, he was recalled five times in the biggest ovation of the season...
...western cold and the eastern warmth. The villain, says William H. Klein of the bureau's Extended Forecast Section, was an "excess of [air] mass" in the subpolar regions of the Western Hemisphere and a "deficit of mass" in the subtropics. This unbalanced condition, favoring the southward movement of cold air, upset the whole air circulation...
...when it was over. Just how much of the work's impact comes from powerful writing and how much from the force of the medium is hard to tell on first hearing. It seemed to me that much of the percussion part was only reinforcement, especially in the first movement. The two elements have a clearer relation to one another, however, in the last two movements, when the timpani picks up a theme from the pianos, or the xylophone introduces one of them for development. Whatever the magic, it is an over-whelming work, and it is not surprising that...