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...reminiscent of Bartok. But from then on, the rest of the concerto was undiluted Chávez-bursting with repeated-note, marim-balike rhythms, themes sometimes curiously plaintive, sometimes broad with the flavor of mesquite and wide-open spaces, and orchestrated throughout with all the colors of a Mexican scrape. Some listeners found it too long (45 minutes); there were eight movements, plus a long cadenza which demanded, and received, much from its performer, but added little to the concerto. Once Viviane halted calmly to tune her violin, while the orchestra played on, and drew a preoccupied look from...
...cotton pickers, for instance, and other labor-saving farm machinery are expected to displace 2,000,000 field hands by 1965; many of them will be available for factory work.) The South's labor population is young and quick to learn. Employers who complain that they have to scrape the bottom of the labor barrel in the North find they can pick, choose and train the brightest of young Southerners...
...year-old spy had been one of eight children, whose invalid father had to scrape along on a pension of $10 a month. He had quit school at eleven and gone to work on a farm. At 18, he joined the navy. A year later, just as openly, he joined Stockholm's Communist Youth Movement. Neither Ernest nor official Sweden apparently saw anything contradictory in the two affiliations. But Ernest Andersson was too good an opportunity to be missed for long by the Russians...
...financial contribution to these endorsed candidates. "In a city wide vote, the CCA's contribution makes it easier for it to swing the election. A candidate who has ability and qualifications also needs about $2000 to campaign successfully. Many of the most qualified candidates could not scrape together this amount." The most notable examples of this, Crane says, are Professor Amory, Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, who served a term on the School Committee, and Richard E. Shaine '41, formerly an Adams House tutor, who the CCA brought into the 1949 School Committee race...
Pentagon officials revealed yesterday that the armed forces will be enlarged by 500,000 men in the near future. The move will force local draft boards to "scrape the bottom of the manpower barrel." This increase will raise the total to 4 million from the present goal...