Word: pedanticism
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After Molotov's return from America, a crowded House of Commons heard Eden's announcement of the treaty. Mrs. Churchill, Mme. Maisky and Mrs. Eden, in light spring coats against the chill, windy sunshine outside, sat together in the Ladies' Gallery, while across on the right Maisky...
Brisk, skeptical, pedantic Mr. Messersmith was a school superintendent for 14 years before he entered the foreign service, then started the hard way as a consul in Canada. A stern crusader for the democracies, he was in Berlin as Consul General when the Nazis came to power. U.S. citizens in...
His program, classifiable as a lesson in early organ music, leafs through representative compositions from the works of three generations of organisits--Sweelinck, Buxtehude, and J. S. Bach. Sweelinck, the wonder of his age, who toured Europe triumphantly performing on the organ and clavichord, has long been relegated to a...
I can never repay my debt to him. When I rewrote my doctor's thesis in book form, he offered to read it, and got Ginn and Company to publish it, and he reviewed it in the "Nation." Then he asked me to edit Gray's poems, and I mention...
However, this quest for music-off-the-beaten-track lends a certain amount of zest to concert-going. Mitropoulous himself would not pretend that the Mahler First is anything but a very bad symphony. Nobody, even the most ardent Mahlerite, imagines that there is anything important or cosmic about the...