Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Music, by nature and definition, can only mean itself. The parts of Shostakovitch's work which have rung true in the past have been the slow, introspective, semi-ecclesiastical movements like the first movement of his Fifth symphony. Here he is presenting the sombre, God-seeking element of Russian life that he understands. Beethoven was successful with his "Eroica" symphony in memory of Napoleon, because he himself was a big enough man to make the music strong and sincere. Shostakovitch is no Beethoven, and the twenties was not a time for breeding heroic figures, but what the present lacks...
Everts failed to drop one set in the whole tournament, the closest he came being an 8-6 set with Freshman Mal Moley in the semi-finals. He also eliminated Houston Warren, another '46 player, and Ted Cohn of the Varsity...
Experience and craftiness triumphed over power and aggressiveness in the two semi-final matches of the University Tennis Tournament played yesterday at the Divinity courts as first-seeded Al Everts finally stopped the victorious march of Freshman Mal Moley of California, and John T. Dunlop, instructor in Economics, outlasted Lin Burton, Varsity players last year who is doing graduate work here...
Fort Des Moines's student population is 800 officer candidates and 500 auxiliaries (privates). Barracks and training facilities can handle 1,300. Semi-permanent buildings are mushrooming to house 3,100 more by mid-September. The brick stables, last vestige of the days when Fort Des Moines belonged to the cavalry, are being made over into barracks. Last week the Army took over three hotels in Des Moines to take care of 2,000 additional auxiliary specialists...
Dunlop meets Hugh Hyde, number two on the Varsity team, in the remaining quarter-final match. The winner of this will meet Lin Burton '42, in the lower bracket semi-final match. In the other semi-final, Al Everts plays Mal Moley, a promising Freshman from California...