Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ The soldiers before Boston at the beginning of the Revolution were most of them enlisted for only three months, and kept walking out at crucial moments. The officers, most of whom were elected by the men, were not only incompetent, but many of them were cowardly. One of the...
In the days before the Revolution, one man haunted Russia?he was the arch-conspirator, Gen. Boris Savinkov.
Then came the Revolution of 1917, with Kerensky at its head; the active support of his regime was the arch-revolutionary Gen. Boris Savinkov.
Boston, the Hub, has made another revolution. Serge Koussevitzky, famed Russian conductor, a prophet of the new, a patron of the unknown, will direct the Boston Symphony this Winter. Last season it was Pierre Monteux, volcanic, sensational, whose introduction of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps was a dramatic event...
Koussevitzky has always been more concerned with the reality of achievement than with the appearance of it. For diverse interests he substitutes his great and lonely passion; he indulges no hobbies, tolerates in himself no eccentricities. In countenance, he is grave; in dress and manner, he resembles a cosmopolitan man...