Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the performance, Symphony conductor Erich Leinsdorf said he was "entirely pleased with them. They have done a beautiful job." The capacity audience in the Tanglewood shed expressed its approval with a standing ovation...
...addition to the prime handicap of time limitation, the summer school chorus had to overcome many other difficulties. Singing in an open shed required powerful voices and assurance of one's own part. To achieve this, Miss Hiatt asked the members to practice special breathing methods and mild calisthenics. The chorus also practiced singing while sitting in the audience section of Paine Hall. This simulated the accoustics of the Tanglewood shed, where sound is only projected outwards, making it almost impossible for the different sections of the chorus to hear each other. Some accoustical problems, however, could not be anticipated...
...advisability of a national civil rights march on Washington, scheduled by the N.A.A.C.P. and other Negro organizations for late August. For expressing such sentiments, Meredith was denounced by the N.A.A.C.P. chairman of the evening's session. And for that, Meredith said the next day that he had "shed my first tears since I was a child" over the "intolerance and bigotry" he had found at the N.A.A.C.P. convention...
Without admitting that his books are autobiographical in detail, Greene has said that a novel is a kind of confession. But whatever he says on this subject, he goes on dropping clues in an ever-lengthening paper chase which seems to lead straight through the potting shed into a paradoxical garden where loss of faith is somehow proof of God's existence. The latest is a new short story called A Visit to Morin. Presented along with a slight bouquet of recent literary Greenery, Morin is fascinating (and likely to draw more attention than the other stories...
...Brattle is to be commended for bringing us this baker's dozen of Bogey items. One can only wistfully shed a tear that such splendid works as Roaring Twenties (1938), High Sierra (1939), African Queen (1952) and Beat the Devil could not have been substituted for the five mediocre works on the program, Big Shot, Kid Galahad, Crime School, San Quentin, and Passage to Marseilles. CHARLES S. WHITMAN