Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this performance of the Mass is probably the finest that can ever be produced with human forces and consequent human imperfections. To play and sing the music must be a tremendous task; even to hear it is a harrowing experience. The vastness of the work removes it from ordinary life. Beethoven's method of worshipping God transcends all formal limits; to him the capability of his players and the capacity of his audience are both unimportant. Hence all the more honor is due the Glee Club, the Choral Society, and the Orchestra for reaching a new peak in their joint...
This "someone" of the woodpile was a cavalier, Mr. Frost was saying. But that's what the poet was, too. He picked up his knowledge anywhere; he turned from task to task. This disturbed the Vagabond. He shouldn't know about things the way a scholar...
Fesler, with the aid of Coach Johnny Wood, faces a stiff rebuilding task, because Captain Lupe Lupion and Charley Lutz are the only two returning regulars. In regard to lettermen, he in somewhat more fortunate, for Chet Legg, Bill Humes, and Fred Heckel are ready to fill the other available positions...
Forty-four-year-old, Maryland-born Mr. Magruder works in a half-furnished office across the way from Mr. Andrews', flicks cigaret ashes on the floor, shares his superior's casual approach to a difficult task...
Last week publishers' trade papers announced that New Directions of Norfolk, Conn, would soon publish Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. This was sensational news, since publishing Henry Miller is a task that might well make any publisher blanch. Brought out in Paris four years ago, Tropic of Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever...