Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, the new $500,000 stage was not finished. Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner had had to rehearse while workmen hammered unsympathetically, and his program of Wagner, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff had its rough spots. The new amplification system had eliminated the echoes that concertgoers had loved to grumble about in the past-but it had replaced them with some equally awesome squeaks and yowls. When the program ended, the crowd gave the musicians (mostly New York Philharmonic-Symphony men) a big hand, listened politely and impatiently while Concert Co-Chairmen Mayor William O'Dwyer and Sam Lewisohn said...
...whether it be the art of cooking or that of painting portraits or church pictures. But that's a very different matter and puts the 'artist' under the obligation of knowing what he is making and why. It ranks him with the world of workmen doing useful jobs...
Last fall the Fairbanks Exploration Co., mining for gold in Alaska, washed the body out of its deep-freeze burial place; the parts that were found, still frozen, had changed little through the centuries. As the skin and flesh began to thaw, workmen embalmed them with formaldehyde, glycerin and alum. They were flown to Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and quickly refrozen...
Mexicans took it hard. They protested when workmen dragged Cuauhtémoc from his perch, moved in on the Statue of Columbus (see cut). Their resentment grew when they learned that the Paseo would have a two-foot strip down the middle, planted to nopal and cactus. "These are the only places where pedestrians may now take refuge," screamed El Universal, "and they fill it with cactus...
After the last kudos and kisses for Serge Koussevitzky last week (TIME, May 9), workmen swarmed into Boston's Symphony Hall. Some" splashed the downstairs walls with gay green paint, others took out seats and risers, packed in small tables and gilt & green chairs. Symphony season was over, but the 64th Boston Pops season was just beginning...