Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philosophy Is Born. Some light is shed on the new philosophy by the way in which Sébille, anxious to clamber on to the lurching bandwagon of postwar Parisian culture, hit upon its name. One day Sébille met a charming girl in an existentialist bar. Said he: "After dinner I proposed to her that we get to know each other more intimately. She replied with a disarming smile: 'Of course. I'm an intimatist.' The name of my philosophy was found...
...heads at all were broken as the Orange parade swung through Belfast. Some blood, however, was shed. The main noise in an Orange parade is made by the Lambeg drummers, who wallop their four-foot-high Lambegs with cane whips 30 inches long. The noise, they say, is like that an elephant makes-but an elephant cannot make it staccato. A Lambeg drummer isn't doing anything at all until his wrists begin to bleed from smacking against the drum; when they see that Orange blood, the crowd, thinking of the Battle, always cheers...
...early in Tanglewood's season, and the sounds that came out of the Berkshire woods were more cacophonous than symphonic. In the vast Music Shed, a student orchestra was rehearsing; in a nook of the carefully pruned gardens, a student agonized in solitude with his French horn. Strolling amid these sights & sounds was a short chunk of a man with a square face and a wild mane, who looked like a composer. He was-he was also guest of honor at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Festival. His name: Arthur Honegger...
...Serge Koussevitzky, came with the founding of the school just before the war; and this season found more than even last year's record enrollment crowding school facilities for the first-of-July opening. With a solid week of student concerts already under its belt, the huge outdoor shed echoing to the myriad noises of tuning musicians, and the full-scale Berkshire Festival due to get underway, the Orchestra management announced last week final plans for the season...
...eliminated five rivals. His backspin was working fine, he drew his marble nicely, cleaned out the ring time after time in one turn. But on the last day, Larry's rabbit's foot failed just when he needed it most. He bit his lip, said nothing, shed not a tear...