Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late 50s, Haydn went to London, heard the choral singing in the huge Handel Festival of 1791, and returned to Vienna feeling liberated from the classical form he himself had done so much to develop. When he got around to composing this work, seven years later, he followed his predecessor Handel's example, wrote to conform more to a text (a theme from Milton's Paradise Lost) than to classical form. In so doing, he wrote music that hints at many a thing to come-the later Beethoven, even early Wagner. Performance and recording: good...
Project 109, unlike its predecessor "A Touch of the Times," will not attempt any social message. It will be a straightforward humorous sketch, in the style of the late Robert Benchley, according to Alexander. In the prologue to the film author MacCann will give a dedication and his "limited apologies" to Benchley...
...Force's case was easily argued. But why, in the age of H-bombs and long-range bombers, did the U.S. need_a bigger Navy? Sherman's predecessor, amiable, ineffectual Louis Denfeld, had never been quite able to explain. Once when a J.C.S. member asked him about the Navy and its plans for antisubmarine warfare, Denfeld sighed: "Oh, you wouldn't understand...
...Washington, Johnny met Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira who advised him to get a change from the Pacific Coast atmosphere with its anti-Nisei discrimination and see something of the "older America." The ambassador remarked that his predecessor had received an honorary degree from Brown University. Johnny Aiso went to Brown, graduated cum laude in 1931, delivered the class valedictory. Then he went back to California, became a lawyer in Los Angeles...
...Vote. How little, muses Graves, does today's crude swearer reflect the high polish of his Chinese predecessor. On the other hand, he has also lost the Elizabethan faculty for fairly plastering his "opponent" with a custard-pie onslaught of laborious, invidious obscenities. Moslems still manage this very well, says Graves, but some of their English-speaking contemporaries have grown so dependent on the single epithet "bloody" (probable origin: "by 'r Lady") that they can hardly grasp the meaning of any word without its assistance. As instance, Author Graves quotes two Britons discussing whether any man should...