Word: movement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...First Piano Concerto. He set himself no slight task in choosing the concerto, which requires not only technical accomplishment but a sensitivity of interpretation to make it worth hearing. That the sensitivity was there was never in doubt, and Lee's technical standard was also high. The first movement in particular was impressive, with the cadenza--arranged by the performer himself--especially broad in emotional conception...
Socialist Britain had been fully warned that Wallace would be speaking for himself alone. Wrote Denis W. Brogan, an acute observer of U.S. affairs: "Britain will be welcoming not the leader of a great mass movement, much less the leader of a great national party, but a distinguished plant geneticist, a former vice president, and the editor of ... a weekly review...
...angry doctors, members of the Committee of 100, announced that they had been kicked off the staff by Roman Catholic hospitals in Waterbury, Stamford and Bridgeport. Explained Father Lawrence E. Skelly: "The [hospital's] action was self-defensive. . . . You gave your name publicly to the support of a movement which is directly opposed to the code under which the hospital operates...
...Anticlericalism plays into Protestantism's hands, but I found no Protestant who approved of its methods. For while the movement is so far largely against priests and hierarchy, it could easily spill over into antireligion...
...Youth Movement. In Jamaica, N.Y., Mary Franzen and Katherine Kirschoch, twin sisters, turned up at a dance studio, speedily caught on to the intricate steps of the rumba in their half-hour lesson, their first in 92 years...