Word: warms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, the closing work, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, not heard in Symphony Hall since 1945, seemed almost anti-climactic. The reading was quite straightforward and warm, outside of an unnecessarily funereal second movement, and great care was spent on fine details; but the fire and urgency that sweep everything before them when Toscanini plays this favorite, were somehow lacking...
Second, Indian summer set in last Monday and the warm practice weather is certain to have Harvard in much better physical condition for the trek southward...
...Theatre Workshop seem to think there's nothing like a feud to fill the stands. The stunt is wearing thin, though, and readers of the daily communiques are beginning to wonder why both groups don't fold their flats and silently steal away to squabble in a small, warm, soundproofed room...
...open-air Hearst Greek Theater at Berkeley, Calif, one day last week, 8,000 new students sat waiting. As the warm sun beat down on them, the band blared out Hail to California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody...
...nation's infantile paralysis experts gathered last week at Warm Springs, Ga. to observe the 20th anniversary of the full-scale U.S. war against polio which Franklin Roosevelt launched in 1927. The experts were shown a grim parade of 84 patients with grotesquely twisted spines and limbs-eloquent evidence that in spite of two decades of earnest slugging by medical science, the war against polio is still an uphill struggle...