Word: sol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painful shyness, Louis Finkelstein was never backward when he had a cause. In order to counteract the drift of Brownsville away from the Torah, he and Sol Goldman launched an intense juvenile crusade - buttonholing youngsters, speaking on street corners, organizing study clubs, and lining up pledges to observe the Sabbath...
...Harmonies. Where other composers were satisfied with the conventional scale of seven basic tones (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti), Schoenberg insisted on discarding "key" and exploring the potential scale of twelve tones (i.e., the full chromatic scale in an octave). The result hurt people's ears. "Just dissonance," they said, or, more simply, "Just noise." Schoenberg stuck to his guns, demanded the "emancipation of dissonance." Discords can become new harmonies, he said. He found a few disciples. The best known: Alban Berg, composer of the twelve-tone opera Wozzeck (TIME, April 23). New music, Schoenberg insisted, "must...
...sortie, the thieves took about $100 of cash and valuables from Leverett G and H entries and from one room in Dunster House. In Leverett, they stole a pack of cigarettes and left the $10 lighter next to it; they also cleaned a wallet of a Peruvian five-sol bill--worth 30 cents...
...turn the brothers' troubles into opportunities. He likes the deal chiefly because of the Warners' 436 theaters, many of them on choice big-city corner lots, which he thinks he can sell off at a fat profit. Lurie, who has previously tried his hand at moviemaking with Sol Lesser, says the syndicate will keep movie production rolling on the Warner Bros, lot, also investigate the possibility of making films for TV. The whole deal, said Lurie, was so easy that it was set up by telephone (it must still be approved by SEC and the Justice Department). Said...
...Among those in the syndicate with Lurie, who will put up at least $5,000,000 of his own: California's Transamerica Corp. ($5,000,000), Broadway Producer Lee Shubert, Independent Film Producer Sol Lesser, who makes the Tarzan movies, Wall Street Brokers Charles Allen Jr. and Samuel Ungerleider, Watchman Arde Bulova ($1,000,000 each...