Word: shines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Soviet musical authorities, who had suddenly developed a tremendous respect for such romantic 19th-Century composers as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (both previously considered horrible examples of bourgeois sentimentality), got themselves a new approved list of less modernistic composers. First to shine among the new group was young Ivan Dzerzhinsky, whose melodious, folk-song-inspired opera And Quiet Flows the Don was contrasted favorably with that "muddle of sound, raucous cacophony and lascivious naturalism," Lady Macbeth. Most talented of the new group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed...
...Saturday against the pre-season favored Indians indicates that Coach Wes Fesler's quintet will be very much in the running for the Ivy League championship. Against Dartmouth the Crimson showed their best form of the season, swiftly working the ball in under the enemy basket. Herrick and Lowman Shine on Defense...
...summer Johnny & George, a Negro piano team, played it at a Jewish summer resort in New York's borsch belt, then brought it to a Broadway night club. There it was heard by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn, two East Side boys who had written Posin', Shoe Shine Boy, Rhythm Is Our Business, could recognize a song when they heard it. They put English lyrics to Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, retained the original title, carried it to Harms, their publishers. Harms, delighted with the plaintive, minor tune that sounded like a Hebrew lament in swing...
...would have been all right. Pale, cold-blooded Octavian, whom easygoing Antony had twice neglected to "liquidate," won out because he followed a more modern technique of demagogy and blood purges. It is in tracing such blunders of Caesar and Antony that Author Ludwig makes Cleopatra's maneuvers shine with genius, makes her biography a nice contemporary commentary...
Texas' Senator Tom Connally: "If the Senator from Michigan will tell . . . when it is going to rain and when the sun is going to shine and when we are going to have a drought...