Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dumps. Not everyone, however, was so disapproving of the avalanche of expensive gaiety as Mrs. Grundy and Laborite George Thomson. Hotel managers purred happily as they scanned supper-room bookings, filled up solidly to Christmas. A wholesale caviar merchant reported "our best year ever." Dance pianists, even not very good ones, were demanding and getting as much as ?30 for an evening's work. In the midst of the merriment, many a Londoner was cast into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have...
...Memorial Day set an alltime high by belting out a total of 50 homers in that one day of eight major-league doubleheaders. In Chicago, where the Milwaukee Braves split with the Cubs, the two teams set a record of 15 homers in two games, the Braves' Bobby Thomson accounting for a pair in each game...
This fall, the boon was on! Eliot House announced the formation of its Drama Group to produce plays meeting the demand for an "intimate theatre;" Adams House went beyond the traditional scope of House productions to present Alcestis in Sanders Theatre and its Music Society gave Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's opera The Mother of Us All. The Eliot group gave three productions this year, The Tempest, Richard II, and The Merchant of Venice, all of which were very favorably received...
...member of the Students for Eisenhower, I am writing to protest the actions of Mr. John Thomson and his colleagues concerning this organization. At the meeting of the Eisenhower group on March 8, Thomson and many of the Young Republican executives demonstrated behavior that is a disgrace to Republicanism and fair play at Harvard. Thomson and his friends succeeded in forcing an election of officers on the club at this meeting without previous announcement, and then railroaded a slate of officers, all of them influential Young Republicans, into office in what obviously were rigged elections...
...Virgil Thomson's music strives to recreate the atmosphere of the period by the use of simple melodies and simpler harmony. The motifs are often built on a single chord, suggesting bugle calls, and this lack of pretension adds charm to the score. Taken seriously, the music becomes tiring in its succession of tonic and dominant chords. The lack of variety, however, is atoned for by the music's good humor, clear orchestration, and subservience to the text...