Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them: Rachmaninoff, Traubel, Monteux, Rubinstein, Stokowski, Koussevitzky. Of these for the most part he writes amiably, if not profoundly. He recalls the way Conductor Pierre Monteux won over the Philadelphia Orchestra at a rehearsal: "Gentlemen, I know that you know this piece backwards, but please do not let us play it that...
...Vice Chancellor, Sonners will be busy dashing off to London on errands, attending university committee meetings, and running his own college as well. He also wants to carry on work in his own field and to continue to play host to fellows and students. "It's quite impossible to do all these," says Sonners placidly; but he will enjoy trying...
...thought that her son was too young to be sent that far from home. Baltimore's public schools "gave off a nauseous odor," in the words of the city's own health commissioner. They were cramped and dingy, had no place where their pupils could play. So Mrs. Francis Carey rounded up a handful of like-minded mothers and they founded a school of their own-the first country day school in the U.S. Last week, the Oilman Country School was 50 years...
...adjectives and recalling What Price Glory? Long hopeful of a good drama about World War II, they were partly confusing the quality of the drink with the intensity of their thirst. But no one could question that in Command Decision World War II had finally inspired an effective play...
...conflict and scrappy talk. What it hits hardest, however, is all sentimental attitudes toward war, all evasions of how damnable it can be, all attempts to break it up neatly into so many parts hell and so many parts humanitarianism. But there is nothing doctrinaire or diagrammatic about the play. Playwright Haines (himself an Air Forces veteran) writes something that could easily have happened; and his characters are people, not mere points of view...