Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a magazine consistently presents issues in terms of unmitigated evil and snow-white purity, it can searcely be considered a responsible organ of opinion. Such a magazine is the April number of "The New Student." Its articles and editorials are hardly designed to convince: most of those who already agree with policies of the Youth for Democracy will find "The New Student" pleasant reading; those who oppose AYD and the HYD affiliate will find it noxious. And the hesitant center group will probably be unable to swallow the mass of dogma, blatant assertions, and--in instances--half-truths...
...days prior to last fall's publication date, the university's Board of Trustees asked for proofs of the forthcoming magazine and subsequently forbade the issue as a Liberal Club organ...
...Berlin one day last week, the Allied Control Council was, as usual, deadlocked. For two hours, Russia's Marshal Vasily D. Sokolovsky kept being disagreeable. Then, suddenly, he rose. "The Control Council," he said, "no longer exists as an organ of government. . . ." He walked out of the room, followed in a body by his 16-man staff. Said General Lucius D. Clay: "A deliberate discourtesy...
...that he doesn't know conventional harmony, rhythm and form: he earns his living teaching at the Boston Conservatory of Music, playing the organ in an Armenian church for services, and for weddings and funerals. Occasionally, to pick up a little change, he has harmonized popular songs. A shy, serious man, he lives with his 18-year-old wife Serafina in Boston's grubby Field Street, rough equivalent of Greenwich Village...
...inclination towards music, or noises disguised as such, I will kill it." Musical noises were just what the boy did incline to, and nothing his father said or did could stop him. On Sundays, his mousy spinster aunt sneaked him off to a church where he could hear an organ. By the time he was eleven, he was composing a church service every week ("I used to write like the devil in those days," he apologized later). He toured the petty courts of Italy and Germany, played for cardinals, dukes and princes. By the time he was 25, George Frederick...