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...Frederick Stock conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bach's Suite in B minor, for flute and string orchestra. And after the overture, he will strain his ears for the stately rhythm of the polonaise, and the humorous, catchy tones of the badinerie, which shows Bach in his lightest vein...
...this same emotionalized vein the concert proceeded through Russian church music and folk songs. The Cossacks sing either very loudly, with stunning effect, or softly with effect just as stunning. The voices have the mellifluous, full-throated quality peculiar to Russians and so well suited to music in the minor mood. There are basses which seem to come from the bowels of the earth. (Cossack Tierekov, said to have the lowest voice on record, recently had his throat photographed in Berlin.) There are falsettos which soar high into the soprano realm. (Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman...
...complimentary to say that a book is good if it can be read by anyone and do no harm, no better tribute could be paid this work. Certainly not all readers would acquire equal benefit from it; certainly the mellow vein of understanding, the whimsical, delicate irony will be lost on many. But there are no startling extremes to lead a reader away from the genuine excellence of the work as a whole...
Included in the batch of letters are all the familiar specimens of newspaper correspondence; there are the Legion boys themselves who start off with the customary cracks at the "deah old Harvard Ladies," and then continue in an equally intelligent vein; and there are the humorless, but conscientious Harvard alumni who write in and deplore the Crimson's "hasty and unwise policy;" still others hold "older men," viz., the board of directors, responsible; and a few strike out boldly in their wholehearted approval...
Scratching away the loose dirt covering the rocky deposits, miners found a vein especially rich in uranium oxide. Although the extent of the discovery is not definitely known yet, investigation so far has shown it to be a strip from five to ten feet wide and over one mile in length. Uraninite is scattered throughout the deposits...