Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conductor Charles Munch signals congratulations to the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society with a smile of satisfaction after the University group had completed its fourth and final performance of the Bach B Minor Mass with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall last night. A near-capacity audience summoned Munch back to the platform four times after the final part of the Mass. The series of four performances was the first presentation of the Mass in a regular subscription concert. The Glee Club and Choral Society will sing the work again at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., this summer...
When critics describe a play as realistic and lifelike, playwright, director, and cast usually smile at their success. They have created the illusion of reality, of life, on the stage and thus have reached theatre's traditional goal. Yet, in 1920 there began a German theatrical group which longed to hear that they had killed the realism, chattered the illusion, and had created false if not impossible situations. These were the impressionists of the Epic Staging School, led by director Erwin Piscator and writer Bert Brecht...
...Shattered, the anti-Kubitschek coalition lamely chose a substitute presidential candidate: Etelvino Lins, onetime governor of the state of Pernambuco and leader of a dissident faction of Kubitschek's own party. Meanwhile, Juscelino Kubitschek, having, duly resigned as governor of Minas Gerais, was wearing a big, confident smile...
...hand to see his portrait for the first time, was not so sure. Said he: "I know nothing of these things. Therefore, I cannot say." Prompted by Painter Ray ("You have said that when you say you don't know, then you know"), Philosopher Suzuki bowed with a smile, politely admitted: "That too can be true...
...years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain . . . without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor." A patron, Johnson bitterly declared in the Dictionary, is "one who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery...