Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, Yetman began to get some help from his defense. The forwards took the cue and played with increasing intensity and success. The second period was the Crimson's right down to the last thirty seconds, when Bill Riley and Merriam went into action to sink two quick ones and cinch the game...
...experiment, a course in the Summer Term to be called the Materials of Music, to be given by Assistant Professor Richard French. This course in theory will be a counterpart of Music 1, the well-known course in the history and literature of Music. If the experiment is a success, we eventually hope to offer the course permanently, if not next year...
Harsh & Helpless. When Britten finally got the surging dissonances and powerful choruses of Peter Grimes on paper, England had its biggest homegrown musical event since the Edwardian era triumphs of Sir Edward Elgar. The London Times pronounced Peter Grimes "a great opera ... its success is deserved and inevitable...
...Gilded Hearse is the story of one day in the life of Publicity Man Eliot. It happens to be the day in 1938 that the Munich Pact was signed, but the stunt of employing momentous events as a backdrop for Eliot's neurotic strivings for cheap success never comes off. To bring it off requires more than making a character tune in on the depressing broadcasts of that day every few pages and glibly crediting the hero with a "premonition of shapeless disaster...
...dearest friend, Hyman Pill, has cast 841 votes for the man with a mandate. Messrs. Deguglielmo, Crane, and Swan, also of the CCA, dislike and distrust Lynch and have split their three votes among themselves. These men are the backers of Plan E. They are responsible for its continuing success in a city that still wants to be shown. If, through personal ambition and mutual dislike, they discredit that most excellent plan, one can only guess to what depths their I.Q. has plummeted...