Word: sighings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applications poured in for Lowell House, Master Coolidge probably breathed a thankful sigh that he resigned from Watch and Ward when he did. Two members of the society, giving false names, had repeatedly tried to buy a copy of the Boston-banned Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, from the owner of the Dunster House Bookshop (no relation to the House), and, when he finally sold them one, the good Watchers and Warders took him to Court, and, with little pricking of conscience and much soft hissing from the Harvard spectators, openly revealed their deceit. The little bookseller...
...Relieved Sigh. Ike's letter expressing "profound regret" at Humphrey's resignation was heartfelt, for from their first meetings he and Humphrey had understood each other. The President was pleased that, before leaving Washington (probably to take over the board chairmanship of Pittsburgh's National Steel Corp., which he helped found in 1929), Humphrey will see the 1958 budget through Congress. But many an Eisenhower Republican breathed a sigh of relief when the White House announced, well in advance of the fact, that Humphrey's successor will be former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert B. Anderson...
...over China, the British press could not conceal a feeling of pedantic sympathy-much like that of a father who sees his child burned in the very fire he had warned against. "Americans lack Britain's long colonial experience," said the imperialist Daily Express, with a nostalgic sigh. "To be misunderstood and misrepresented is often the price of leadership." The most pointed alarm, however, was one of a different tenor, sounded by London's Liberal News Chronicle: "Anything that encourages the U.S. to withdraw into 'Fortress America' is bad for the free world. The policy...
...Father Kelly, "we should all pray for Billy Graham." In the current issue of the Jesuit weekly America, Jesuit Gustave Weigel, professor of ecclesiology at Maryland's Woodstock College, agrees. "Faced with the vast popularity and substantial shortcomings of Graham's 'crusade,' we can only sigh and reflect that we, like him, are also Adam's children, defective and half-blind ... It would ill become us to be harsh or cynical toward a man whose zeal and sincerity, even in a misguided cause, might shame many a lukewarm Catholic. Rather let us hope and pray...
...most concentrated works (e.g., Five Pieces for orchestra, Six Bagatelles for string quartet, Three Small Pieces for cello and piano), Webern pulverized melody, harmony and rhythm. Schoenberg said that these pieces packed the art of "a whole novel in a single sigh." The result is music that drones at times with shrill insect insistence, rises to jagged, shrieking climaxes, lapses in midphrase into sudden silences that form a weird counterpoint to sound. Most listeners will be more attracted to Webern's songs, based on such idyllic poems as Goethe's The Perfect Match ("A flowerbell blossomed early from...