Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Finn attributes his transcendent choral effects to the cajoling rather than the browbeating of his talent. His rehearsals are continuously good-humored. He is a genius at making singers relax. For martinet choirmasters Father Finn has nothing but contempt. Writes he, in his effulgent Hibernian prose: "Sometimes [these conductors] seem content to fabricate their figures in ice, hankering to muse in temperatures below zero, phrasing frozen notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed...
...Back and Relax. What such programs can mean to G.I.s was suggested recently by an AFRSman who had helped set up the India network. Said he: "I don't care whether you're a highly educated technical officer or the most ignorant draftee. You're sitting in nowhere after a hard day and you have nothing to read but a couple of old magazines you've read ten times. It's raining solidly, so there aren't any movies. The Indian radio is full of Urdu and Hindustani and that monotonous music which drives...
Cinemadicts get a chance to relax and laugh at the trials of an Army rookie, Private Hargrove, the boy around the corner, when they view "See Here, Private Hargrove," the latest take-off on Army life...
High-Strung. In Augusta, Me., Ralph E. Mosher, who won the nomination for state senator on both party tickets, reported his total campaign expenses: 18?, including 10? for a beer to "relax tension...
Most of the men not on watch were sprawled around topside trying to relax and cool off in the little breeze the ship's movement made. A few of us were standing by the rail thinking our own thoughts when someone called attention to some objects in the water. We began to watch them...