Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dips deeply into his reservoirs of energy, belligerency and profanity when dealing with these forces of evil, but he does so with a comparatively relaxed air-something like a lion-tamer lobbing house cats into the chandelier of a Sunday morning. His real enemies are the phonograph record and its cousins, the motion picture sound track and the radio station turntable. He is mortally afraid that without James Caesar Petrillo, all the music in the U.S. would eventually be produced by one non-union musician playing a musical comb into a microphone...
...everything will be business, Tobias Wagner '26, publicity chairman said, as Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday will be set aside for the Harvard-Penn baseball tilt, "informal games," and tennis and golf at nearby country clubs...
...Edward C. G. Boyle, the member of the team who did not debate Sunday, spoke for the trio yesterday, when he asserted that the British do not realize what America actually is like. "We found the United States quite different from England, especially in its standard of living which is extremely high compared to ours--higher than we could have imagined...
Harlow Shapley, professor of Astronomy, and Francis O. Matthiessen, professor of American literature, put themselves behind Henry Wallace's independent candidacy for President at convention sessions of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions Council of the Progressive Citizens of America in Chicago on Sunday...
...recital invariably begins with an obeisance to the forces of classisicism and/or ingenuousness. This seldom comes off very well because of the contradiction between the nature of the music and of the performer. Sunday it was a Haydn Sonath and a Schubert Impromptu, both of which suffered from the prevailing atmosphere of a Prometheus bound within too-narrow emotional limits. The pieces were both miscast as an overture, but that was the role they were forced to play...