Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth and established Sibelius as the composer of unfettered nature. With his occasional Nordic rages, he sounded like Brahms gone berserk, but he was also capable of a strongly appealing lyricism. His symphonies, with their acrid dissonances, their brassy shouts and cool, lonely instrumentation, seemed even closer to the stark northern land. Although Sibelius testily denied the implication that he wrote music merely descriptive of nature, he would say: "The seasons are like movements in a symphony. Spring is adagio, the fall is scherzo...
...Arts at Lincoln Square. While the Met directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne's stark new opera theater, plush-and-gilt partisan Bing said with a shudder: "The sacrifice you make here is glamour. I believe New York still wants its opera glamorous...
Founded by Missouri Apple Grower Paul C. Stark (father of the "victory garden" idea during World War II), the N.C.C.C.I, has a straightforward message: Washington should do its best to check inflation, but it is clearly up to the rest of the nation to help out with self-restraint. On that point Dwight Eisenhower fully agreed with Apple Grower Stark. Said Ike at his midweek press conference: "Government, no matter what its policies, cannot, of itself, make certain of the soundness of the dollar . . . There must be statesmanlike action, both by business and by labor...
Free Love & Bolshevism. He introduced its first undergraduate course in social science, injected large doses of philosophy into the curriculum. He brought in such men as Poet Robert Frost, Author Stark Young and Critic George Whicher. But in trying to reconstruct the college, he infuriated many oldtimers on the faculty. He also irritated his trustees by completely disassociating himself from fundraising. Finally, in one of the most publicized academic uproars of the time, he was forced to hand in his resignation in 1923. That commencement, 13 students flatly refused to accept their degrees, and eight professors and associate professors quit...
...friend, "with more excuse to throw up his hands and turn all his problems over to alcohol than John McClellan." McClellan did just that, and it nearly broke up his marriage to Norma. Finally he turned in despair to a trusted adviser. "What will I do?" he asked. The stark, unqualified reply: "Lay off that bottle." John McClellan thought for a moment, then his face turned hard. Said he: "I'm going to show you that I am the master of my own soul." He went into the bathroom, and when he emerged, there were two shattered bottles...