Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus does a young Viennese named Paul Csonka, who assembled a troupe of young singers in 1934, explain what he set out to do. For six months in a quiet Tyrolese village his troupe rehearsed one opera, Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. After a season in Vienna, Csonka moved it to Salzburg, though it had no connection with the summer music festivals, and adopted the name, Salzburg Opera Guild. Last summer, rehearsing twelve hours a day in a rented castle at Mondsee near Salzburg, the Guild increased its repertory of operas. Last week, under the management of astute...
...York Times, an august and dignified daily rivals the London Times in accuracy, completeness and austerity. General Motors Corporation, too, prides itself upon the calm, quiet, proper manner in which it conducts its advertising and the absence of the "girl appeal" motive from its promotional schemes...
...infant: prodigy entered. The hall became quiet. . . . He looked as though he were nine years old but was really eight and given out for seven.-Thomas Mann, The Infant Prodigy...
...When completed the new building will contain biochemical laboratories and a clinic. San Francisco's late William Henry Crocker gave $75,000 for this project, the Chemical Foundation $68,000, Dr. Lawrence estimates that he needs about $35,000 more. Designer of the new equipment is quiet, able Dr. Donald Cooksey, assistant director of the laboratory for the past three years...
Live, Love and Learn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) sends Robert Montgomery forth from a whimsical, penniless life in Manhattan's Washington Square section into battle against the stultifying wiles of Mammon. He is armed with artistic genius that "has something ostentatiously quiet about it," a facility with yellows unequaled since van Gogh and a respectable capacity for liquor. Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When...