Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arte String Quartet worked its way through the composer's cacophonous String Quartet No. 3 and then played his familiar Transfigured Night, which he wrote in 1899, before he ran off the melodic rails. When Quartet No. 3 was over, the loudest applause came from the sixth row, where lively, gnomelike Schönberg, natty in a polka-dot bow tie, sat with his wife. The audience joined in more enthusiastically after Transfigured Night. Afterwards Schönberg said: "I have to hear my music ten times to understand it myself. It needs frequent hearing...
Spurred by a weekly radio deadline, David Rose was fast becoming America's most prolific contemporary composer. Last week, for the eighth week in a row, he presented an original composition on his Holiday for Music (CBS, 10:30 p.m., E.D.S.T.). To many a listener he seemed the freshest figure in this spring's broadcasting...
...there was perhaps more to the row than just a primary battle. Warned C.I.O.-P.A.C. Campaigner "Slim" Connelly: "When we get through there won't be any Democratic Party. ... It will be an entirely new party. . . . After the primary the guys who now call themselves Democratic leaders . . . will be so isolated, you won't be able to find them. The new party is going to be the party of the people-the worker...
...first issue featured sober articles on U.N.'s Military Staff Committee, the plans to broaden Britain's traditionally upper-crust Foreign Office, and Russia's efforts to dominate civil aviation in Eastern Europe. But Corps Diplomatique still seems most at home in its social column, "Embassy Row," served up with heady whiffs of the old monde élégant: "The other day we met Baroness van Boetzelaer in what Milton called the best company: alone. . . . Emerson's wisdom that art teaches us manners and abolishes haste attains its perfect example in the First Lady...
...First to interpret the bee law of dance and scent was Professor Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich. Near a hive he placed a square of cardboard perfumed with bergamot oil, and on it a dish full of sugar syrup. Fifty yards away he arranged a row of cards. None offered syrup, but each had a different scent. One was oil of bergamot...