Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koussevitzky's interpretation may be subject to personal criticism, but it is a warm, lyric approach that does full justice to the cyclical construction and almost earthy quality of the music. For, despite name, the Requiem is not sorrowful or morbid, but confident and reassuring. Particularly fine were the male voices in the great fortissimo, "Behold, all flesh . . . ," and Radcliffe attained equal stature in the flowing fourth section and the final fugue. The impassioned soprano solos of Miss Frances Yeend lent the note of high personal achievement needed to round out a very satisfying concert...
...helicopter-in-every-garage school which flourished during the war, he says "nuts." When the talk (emotional thinking, he calls it) was perfervid of a sky black with planes-and no one riding the railroads-Patterson snapped: "If all the hot air on the subject circulating today were stored, it would create enough energy to fly all the planes in the U.S. without gasoline...
...film has any serious fault (occasional jerkiness and slowness of episodes are minor ones), it lies close to the heart of Noel Coward's particular kind of talent. His deep affection and respect for his subject cannot be questioned, nor can his deep knowledge of it (he came from just such a background). But he is an extremely clever man, with a great flair and fondness for theatrical trick and design, which, at their worst, can use emotions as if they were stage properties. When clever men try to write with complete sincerity and, at the same time...
...incompetent, and those rare souls who have a true vocation for teaching can or will stick with such a job. The pay is disgracefully low (the average teacher gets from $800 to $3,100 a year). Socially, teachers are held in a special kind of contempt and are subject to prying and coercion in their private lives-and are, as a rule, subject to threats and to firing without any possible means of self-defense...
...student proposal to set up a permanent activities table within each House dining hall, assigning it to one organization each evening, met with mixed reaction from the House Masters. "We are keeping an open mind on the subject," said Haring, "and will probably make a final decision the next time the whole matter is brought...