Word: surginger
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Serge Koussevitzky, brilliant, provocative conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra startled conservative ears last week when he gave the mad, barbaric incantation of Prokofiev's "Sept, Us sont sept"* its first and its second performance in Manhattan. For, having played the feverish chant in which the shattering tenor voice...
The short, thick figure of Arturo Toscanini stood on the conductor's dais at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, last week. Italians, Germans, Americans beat their palms together, cheered. Soon he turned his back on them, raised his baton. He was no longer Toscanini, but Ludwig van Beethoven-the Beethoven of...
Holding the esteemed position that he does, the presidency of one of the oldest and most dignified institutions for higher education in America, President Lowell could not help but be aware of the unlimited treasures which may be unearthed by any earnest college student. He realizes that the majority of...
"I was at dinner when a terrific rumbling, surging noise rent the air. A thousand windows crashed, and the building oscillated. . . . The floor reeled under my feet. All the lights failed. We expected momentarily the roof to fall and smother us.
A beauty spot of New Jersey, clad in fat trees and voluptuous clover on a still, close night last week . . . now lies prostrated, ravished, wrecked, shivered, torn, blasted. As if razed by ten years' surging warfare, the fields and villages nearby Lake Denmark, shrouded in grey gunpowder dust, welter...