Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night's production overemphasized the abstractions of plot and dialogue, thus throwing out of proportion the living drama of the actual characters, Dion, Brown, Margaret and Cybel. The body movements and pitch of voice in the characterizations of Dion Anthony, by Roger Henselman '42, and Billy Brown, by Richard Wiechmann '43, were exaggerated into such abstraction that the play as a whole did not build, throughout the too-long four acts, to any convincing climax...
Ayres Also to Pitch...
This was the eighth time Mr. Roosevelt had tossed out the opening day pitch, record since the Presidential tradition was started by William Howard Taft...
...seaward again. The U. S. found that it had a Navy, but only 81 ships in foreign trade (less than 500,000 tons). The fleet was dependent for coal and other supplies on foreign merchantmen that were either hostile or busy with other jobs. The U. S. had to pitch in and build itself a merchant fleet. It did. But by the time it got rolling at top speed, the war was over. By late 1918, U. S. merchantmen were being launched at the rate of one every three days; the tonnage of new ships launched that year...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week ended its season with a performance of Wagner's Die Götterdämmerung, in which even Brünnhilde's horse joined in the singing, with off-pitch whinnies. For Manhattan can take grand opera for only 16 weeks at a time...