Word: organization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason why other journalists praise and envy the Post is that in the past 17 years it has risen from the unenvied position as Washington's No. 1 scandal sheet to become the most independent and vigorous paper in the capital. Harry Truman regards it as an opposition organ; the capital's reactionaries have long called it the "Washington edition of the Daily Worker." Yet its news judgment is so sure, its editorial voice so forthright, that, in a city where all lawmakers and administrators reach for the New York papers, it has become must reading...
Most church architecture in the U.S., writes Journalist Georges Fradier, "may evoke an English cathedral, a Corinthian temple or a bathhouse, but the interior is always the same: that of a third-rate movie palace . . . Varnished benches present a comfortable resting place for faithful buttocks. A drawing-room organ emits sugared water. A pulpit . . . two or three pots of flowers, that is all the decoration. Some temples retain an altar, but this outmoded object serves only to support a still larger number of flower pots...
...your editorial of November 22, entitled, "Divided We Stand," the CRIMSON showed several blatant misconceptions and unfamiliarity with the facts. As the official news organ of Harvard College, we believe you and your readers would like to hear the Inter-House Social Affairs Committee side of the story. We have set forth the following points in an endeavor to clear up the situation...
...Fortunately, all of medicines and medical instruments, and mattresses were carried out. And the nice organ is still here and useful . . . All is thankful and blessing...
...gratification enough for an American to get his work played at all. With the help of Serge Koussevitzky, then conducting his first season with the Boston Symphony, Copland blazed that trail too. "Send them a bill!" commanded Koussevitzky after a rehearsal of the young composer's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra. Copland sent the symphony society a modest bill ("maybe $25, I've forgotten"), and was paid. When Copland told old,time U.S. Composer Henry F. Gilbert about his check, Gilbert clasped his head in mingled joy and disbelief...