Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Requiem proved to be a long, elaborately orchestrated work, so sprightly that it seemed better suited to a festival than a funeral. The choral parts suggest passion rather than piety; the orchestra skips and trips along with a fine comic invention. The work is at its most exuberant in the solo parts, which are as warmly melodic as the love songs of Italian street singers. Many an Italian requiem, including Verdi's, is shot through with operatic overtones, but Cimarosa's work verges on opera so closely that it requires only the substitution of a bedroom plot...
...Handlin finds his influence divisive, Schlesinger noted last year in a review of Curley's own book, I'd Do It Again, "his sublime satisfaction in the successful struggle of the Irish community of Boston for political and social influence." It would be no academic feat these days to suggest that the two may be reconciled: that, in the name of all that is most Irish, Curley was urging his fellows to assume in political influence, social prestige and fact, with Curley, mind you, always at their head, a posture indistinguishable from that of the old proper Bostonians, and perhaps...
Singing Theologicals. In this verbally sparkling but essentially dismal exercise in self-vindication and world indictment, Huxley has assembled a mass of evidence to suggest that the human race is approaching his dread vision of total togetherness much more quickly than he estimated. (Huxley set the time of his soma-happy society in the 7th century A.F., or After Ford.) Institutes for Motivational Research, hidden persuaders and singing commercials make Huxley think man is being nudged closer to the dark side of the moonstruck world he once described...
...financial support can be expanded and the program made selfperpetuating, the Harvard Undergraduate Teachers could be a very effective antidote to the Boston area teaching probrem--as well as an interesting "extra-curricular" for energetic students.ROSSITER AND NICHOLS SUGGEST Gone With the Wind and Uncle Tom's Cabin to a Brazilian sophomore at Newton interested in the American Civil War. The HUT's have just explained "abolitionism...
Beneath South Carolina's appearance as "the last stronghold of the old South," changes are occurring that suggest a "general Southern growth," Mrs. Libby N. Alford, special events reporter for WCOS of Columbia, S.C., said in a speech to the Society for Minority Rights last night...