Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week rolled a bus with an unusual group of children. None of them had ever eaten an ice-cream cone or seen a cinema, although they lived only 40 miles away in the little Spanish-American mountain village of Juan Tomas. Juan Tomas, on the eastern slope of the Manzanos, has seven houses, a church and a school. It has no store, no telephones, no radios, since none of Juan Tomas' families owns a motor car, the only glimpse its children have of modern civilization is of the puffs of smoke rising from railroad trains...
This week the third Annual MacDowell Radio Festival boomed far beyond U. S. borders. Manhattan's New York Philharmonic-Symphony, under slope-shouldered Georges Enesco, broadcast MacDowell's symphonic poem Lancelot and Elaine over the Columbia network. Other commemorative broadcasts were heard over Columbia, NBC, Don Lee, and Canadian broadcasting systems, as well as 56 independent stations. Additional MacDowell broadcasts were heard from one station each in Ireland, Sweden, England, Australia, Poland. Norway, and from three stations in Germany, where MacDowell spent his most fruitful student years...
...snow-covered island of Sakhalin, half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly the Japanese sleigh driver found himself being nudged in the ribs by Comrade Sugimoto with a pistol. The driver halted, watched, terrified and helpless, while the actress and her Red put on skis, started down a steep slope in the direction of the Soviet frontier and disappeared in gathering darkness. Japanese frontier patrols, summoned by the driver, found no trace of the ski-elopers, said they had apparently made for a Soviet frontier post about a mile from the spot where they started their slide...
...anything else. A few, like the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the contemporary Jose Iturbi, have been even more famed as instrumental soloists than as orchestral maestros. Still fewer can, like Germany's Richard Strauss, combine the abilities of a brilliant conductor with those of an eminent composer. Burly, slope-shouldered Rumanian Georges Enesco, who replaced John Barbirolli last week as guest conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is probably the only famous musical figure today who is equally noted as a composer, a conductor and a soloist...
...omnibus of humor and situations from Aesop to Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Before any script is written, it is discussed and pantomimed by the eager gagsters, who solemnly simulate Donald Duck squawking his rage when trapped under a theatre curtain, or frozen Pluto, slinking down an Alpine slope like a hunk of ice sliding off a tin roof...