Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening night, before a jammed audience in Usher Hall, he was right there, ready, and with Franck, Sibelius, Brahms and Berlioz, he put on as good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue but one-obedience...
...week's end, most Detroiters were still sitting back. Symphony critics, who thought that sufficient support could still be found if autocratic President Reichhold stepped out of the top job, were waiting for him to make the next move...
Detroit was not alone in its troubles. The orchestra that hard-working Conductor Izler Solomon had built in Columbus, Ohio had finally tumbled down in its eighth year, unable to raise $90,000 for its oncoming season. Baltimore and Seattle, among others, would limp through their seasons, still on the sick list. But from Portland, Ore. last week came cheering news of a remedy if not a cure...
...wasn't much of a capital city, and the country itself was immemorially backward, wretchedly poor. Two percent of its people owned 80% of the land; tenant farmers got 2? a day, skilled workers 7? an hour. On the highlands, hungry Indians scratched the barren slopes for corn, still trying to live by what they remembered of the dignified old tribal customs. And ruling the country was Dictator Ronca, a strutting, streamlined Latin American demagogue who had won the peasants' support by promising them land, only to suppress them as soon as he got to power...
Which cause in San Marcos, or in the world, was most nearly right? What should an honest man do? Carlos was not prepared to judge; he was still thinking...