Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ravel's Bolero by Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony (Victor, 2 records, $2 each)?A highly charged reading of the season's symphonic sensation in Paris, Manhattan and Boston. The records, with Satie's placid Gymnopedie on the back of the second, are already best sellers.
Last week newsgatherers were allowed to crowd around a City Hall table behind which stood Commissioner Whalen, police dignitaries and the Mayor. "Now, now," chided Mr. Walker, "this isn't Wanamaker's bargain counter." Then he announced that Mr. Whalen had resigned, was returning to Wanamaker's. In his place...
Parried Conservative Walker: "It has been reserved for the so-called Modernists to be irritated at any resemblance to anything that has calm, and to adore excess in every direction, to be shapeless, crude, eliminated in detail to nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and...
Thomas Hardy was essentially a poet. Fiction began with him as an avocation, partly because he was passionately fond of the tales told him of his native Dorset, and thought something should be done about them, partly because his first popular novel (Far from the Madding Crowd) produced such a...
A chill London dawn broke on Covent Garden last week and disclosed a sight other than the wholesale display of artichokes, turnips, lettuce, peas. Outside the shabby old opera house which today stands in the centre of the market district, a queue of patient men and women had formed. Wise...