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...orchestral selections like "The Light Cavalry Overture," Perry evolved the nucleus of the group. For its first concert last April, he added chorus and orchestra and produced a program of English glees, canons, and catches. The chorus had a good time, and the audience left humming "Which is the properest day to drink?" indicating a liking for both form and content. In the following months, the Society tried Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Grand Duke," Strauss' "The Gypsy Baron," rare Mozart, a tribute to Queen Elizabeth, and several concerts of chamber music, all in the tradition of music seldom heard...

Author: By Jerome Goodman, | Title: From the Pit | 5/2/1951 | See Source »

Back home, popular young Minister Sherrill went from strength to strength among the properest Bostonians. His first parish, the Church of Our Saviour, was in the tony suburb of Brookline. Sherrill's predecessor had been an old man; Sherrill's live-wire preaching brought a dramatic increase in the Sunday turnout. There he met pretty Barbara Harris, daughter of a prosperous Brookline businessman. By taking her to baseball games in the afternoons, Sherrill managed to court her without giving the parish gossips a chance. They were married in 1921, now have a son in the ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church & the Churches | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Aphorisms in the songs further demonstrate this spirit; Thomas Curtis' True Britton did "haste to the bottle and joyously sing," Joseph Baildon philosophized" Tis better to lie drunk than dead," and Thomas Arne's dilemma was "Which is the Properest Day to Drink...

Author: By Jerome Goodman, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...TIME agrees with Poet Fletcher that good poetry is sometimes socially useful, hopes he will agree that poetry's properest study is not society's ant-hill but man's heart and mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...diction now established. ... In this search it might have much to learn from [Milton] the greatest master of freedom within form in our language, outside the theater. ... It might also learn that the music of verse is strongest in poetry which has a definite meaning expressed in the properest words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Milton Is O.K. | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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