Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors circulated the thought that M. Briand would attempt to draw support from this unstable "majority of enemies" in an effort to gain at least temporary backing for his "save the franc" program. During this hectic week, Premier Briand found time to deny once more that he is engaged to be married?after 64 years of bachelorhood. He told reporters of three young Manhattan women who recently sent him a joint proposal?he to choose from their inclosed photographs which he preferred to wed. "I deemed their letter a most charming and delicate attention," said M. Briand, "yet I could...
...this, two cups of that, a tablespoon of something else, a pinch of salt?and a chef has mixed a cake. A Beethoven symphony or perhaps a Haydn, a bit of de Falla or maybe Respighi and a portion of Wagner?and a symphonic conductor has made up his program. And just as one chef is famed for his pastry, the next one for his meats, so is it natural for one conductor to excel in one style of music, be it classic, romantic or modern...
...resources. If he makes an error, it will go hard with him, since he is not permitted to depart from his sketch solution during the rest of the time alotted him for preparation of the final drawings. This discipline is heightened by the all-day sketch problem--a program that must be solved and drawn in final form in 12 hours. It is sketchy in form and requires rapidity of conception and study. Then, too, is the week-end sketch--really an enlarged all-day sketch--a very fatiguing and difficult type of test...
Such things may well appeal to laymen. But I have high hopes that they will appeal to the bar also. For in the end the results of legal research must aprove themselves to the bar or the investigations will have been in vain. And a program of legal research may well appeal to the bar, if for no other reason, because through research we may most assuredly preserve the common law as the law of our several states and the conspicuous bond of union among English-speaking peoples...
Next Sunday night at the Pops Concert in Symphony Hall a symphonic program will be given. It is as follows...