Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literary controversy that has raged in Moscow since Sholokhov's attack, the magazine New World, an organ of the Writers' Union, this month began publishing Bruno Yasienki's long-suppressed novel, The Plot of the Indifferent, with a preface by his widow referring to his "arrest based on the slander of provocateurs." In the strange dialectic of Communist Russia, yes was rapidly becoming no. An old Stalin-line man could no longer remain indifferent. Last week Tass News Agency reported the end. In his luxurious apartment, Alexander Fadeyev shot himself. The cause, said Tass, was chronic alcoholism...
...spring and then kill and rob them. His son escapes, returns in Act II (twelve years later) unrecognized, and allows himself to die under his father's hatchet. Composer Van Buskirk, who composed his score on piano and tape recorder, gave the orchestra a plaintive parlor-organ quality and the singers some striking dramatic climaxes...
...Changes for Harpsichord (1953). This original work, with its jagged theme and unusual, repetitive harmonies and textures, is in the form of a French ouverture. The varied coloristic potentialities of the harpsichord are well utilized. So rich are some of the sonorities produced that the instrument sounds lie an organ, and, in certain harmonically brilliant sections, there is a suggestion of the contemporary French organ school of composition. Although the repetitive element in the style is sometimes overdone, the work as a whole is balanced and dramatic...
...lacked full-bodied resonance, but mustn't expect from them the quality of Mr. Woodworth's varsity singers. Vocal soloists adequate for the most part. No small amount of the overall impressiveness due to the marvelous parts for trumpets and timpani-now menacing, now jubilant. James Armstrong at the organ a most effective substitute for string orchestra...
...Organ recital given Sunday afternoon in Memorial Church by seven Harvard, Wellesley and Radcliffe students. General level of performance surprisingly high. Best playing done by James Armstrong (Mendelssohn's Second Sonata) and Kerala Johnson (the long-winded B-Minor Choral of Franck). The others need to work for greater rhythmic precision and vitality, and for clearer articulation...