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Word: toto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music is exactly right-no more nor less-for its frightening story. Menotti is a composer who can be described only as appealing; his music uses modern devices, manages to attract the listener without letting him out-of the grip of the opera in toto. He uses chiefly a semirecitative style, but he proves conclusively his ability to write an aria with an exceptionally lovely song which he gives the daughter near the close of the first...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: The Music Box | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

...business, preferences ideological and national give way to one of the most remarkable assortments of reading matter available anywhere: Daily Worker, Irish World, Turf Flash, plus language sheet and pulp (over 600 in toto) mingle on the shelves unembarrassed while Felix looks down with a benign tolerance. "It's no matter if a man buy something," he reasons, "he like to see what it's all about." What does dismay him is the wicked popularity of sex trash. When men are buying that which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

Presenting an ambitious offering of sacred and profane music, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society over-extended themselves last night in a program that was often interesting, but, in toto, musically unsatisfying. The performances of music ranging from sixteenth century Palestrina and Gabrieli to a Hindemith setting of Walt Whitman continually emphasized text and style at the expense of sound, and the intricacies of the complex part singing were never fully realized by renditions not quite up to Harvard-Radcliffe standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/26/1947 | See Source »

...attempt to foist as much of it on the unions as is compatible with the Republican ambitions for 1948. One of the major impediments to Congressional action is the dispute between Speaker Martin and Senator Taft as to whether the foisting should be done piecemeal or it toto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/6/1947 | See Source »

...Malta, where they had to wait for another plane, the rival leaders spoke for the first time. Their conversation, in toto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Flight to Nowhere? | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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