Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since that time most composers have been content to compose in one direction. Not so the famed, self-exiled German modernist, Paul Hindemith. Twelve years ago, before Nazi censors decided he was a Kulturbolschewist, sad-eyed Composer Hindemith dished up a whole opera in crab style. Last week an enterprising group of Juilliard Graduate School alumni gave this crab-style opera its first Manhattan hearing...
When bespectacled, downright Republican Frank Dwight Fitzgerald upset pious Democrat Frank Murphy in Michigan's gubernatorial election last November, he dealt a sad blow to New Deal pride. After turning out the man who turned him out in 1936, Governor Fitzgerald set about undoing (mainly by budgetary starvation) much of Mr. Murphy's Little New Deal. Last week a prevailing virus gave a new turn to Michigan politics...
...interim--Harvard in limbo. But soon the interlude will vanish. Some people will be glad. They like action, things quite due, quite finished, quite ready. But the Vagabond will be sad. He is strictly an interlude lad. A lecture is now only a page of scrawled notes at the end of an hour. Soon, however, it will be a vital cog in the machinery of some course. Vag prefers them as they are now--as meaningless scratchings which have been joyfully interrupted in mid-sentence by the bonging of a bell...
...carefully weighed. For it is absurd to create town-gown enmity without some sort of return for the sacrifice. So far it has been all sacrifice for Harvard this winter, as Plan E lies in the graveyard and town animosity has reached an all time high. The spectacle is sad; but, if it serves as an example and warning to Dartmouth, Harvard's suffering has not been entirely in vain...
...part suited to her temperament, and handles her high kicks and train of suitors with the same refreshing ability. But when necessities of plot turn her heart towards a rich, Parisian businessman, only stuffy and always noble Herbert Marshall is available to reap the profits. It was a sad mistake for the producers to import Mr. Marshall from the dignity of his Paris apartment to the wild charms of music-hall life; also sad is the change forced on Bert Lahr, who has been transported from his usual garden of foolery to the role of Zaza's faithful partner. Even...