Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warm but not Romantic, perfectly intonated, and technically amazing. When the second voice entered in the Fuga of the opening Sonata, a breathless incredulity came over every listener. In the Presto of the Partita in B Minor, his fingers literally clicked over the strings, picking out every sixteenth note, even giving each a slight vibrate. Loveliest of all was the Andante of the last work. Schneider never overdid the sentiment, and the steady beat of the pedal point through the melody held the music to a moving, but ever-calm reserve...
...both sides erupted in all the usual outlets of public opinion--newspaper columns, speeches, meetings, petitions, and floods of letters to the authorities. The pros and cons were divided into what Dos Passes called "Two Nations," and Professor Joughin uses this phrase as a title. It is interesting to note that the popular antipathy to Sacco and Vanzetti decreased roughly in proportion to the increase in distance from New England. In New York and Paris thousands of sympathizers rioted in the streets, but in Boston the fear of radicalism and the belief that Massachusetts justice was being hamstrung by "foreign...
Harvard held his final scrimmage of the season yesterday, but unfortunately the half-hour session didn't close the Crimson's contact work on a very promising note, and it wasn't a very impressive showing to make just two days before the Yale game...
...Note to Reader Hayum: officers buy their...
Read All About It. The press (TIME and LIFE included) had planned postelection issues on the seemingly safe basis that Dewey was in. Hundreds of editorial writers and syndicated columnists, who had turned in their regular Wednesday stints in advance, had struck the same note. Therefore, on election night, from London's Fleet Street to San Francisco's Market Street, newspaper hellboxes overflowed with type that was hastily dumped as the returns came in. (One groundless gossip-columnist report: that LIFE had to junk an issue with Dewey on the cover.) Not all caught themselves in time...