Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 12 sides). In the doghouse of official Soviet displeasure since 1936, when Joseph Stalin cracked down on modernistic music (TIME, Feb. 24, 1936), 33-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich climbed out again by writing this symphony in honor of the October Revolution's 20th anniversary (1937). The symphony, finest work to date by Soviet Russia's No. 1 TIME, January 8, 1940 composer, shows Joe Stalin to have been a sound music critic. In it, Composer Shostakovich leaves all clattering tricks behind, works fine melodies up into surging climaxes. Magnificently performed and recorded...
...Sociological Society. He does not agree with many criminologists that crime is caused by poverty-stricken environments or by mental and physiological conditions associated with poverty. He classed as white-collar criminals the "robber barons" of the 19th Century and the Kreugers, Staviskys, Insulls, Whitneys, Coster-Musicas of the 20th, contended that there exists a great welter of less spectacular white-collar rascality-short weights in stores, commercial bribery, willful violations of food and drug laws, thefts and embezzlements by clerks and accountants, stock frauds, political chicanery of all sorts, fee-splitting by doctors. This top-drawer malfeasance does...
...Times's hardworking Critic Ralph Thompson once remarked in a fit of exasperation that Remains' "theory of fiction is almost intolerable." But The New Yorker's Clifton Fadiman has stuck to his opinion that Men of Good Will "is the Comedie Humaine of and for the 20th Century." Tired critics and trustful critics have divided over the question whether the finished job (in 27 volumes, as planned) will rank as one of the great novels of modern times or merely as the longest...
Everything Happens at Night (20th Century-Fox) continues prudent but so far rather unproductive efforts to turn Sonja Henie into a dramatic actress against the day when even Henie fans may tire of seeing Henie skate. Surrounded by a capable cast (Maurice Moscovich, Robert Cummings, Ray Milland), in a trite little, tight little tale, this time Sonja Henie skates only once, and though she is a competent skier, long shots of her skiing were done by a double. But whether she is gliding backwards or forwards, or skating rings around Greek columns to the strains of The Blue Danube, Sonja...
...just above the brain stem, is a small patch of grey matter. Only one three-hundredth part of the total brain, the hypothalamus is concertmaster in the symphony of human behavior. Last week, in Manhattan, noted neurologists and psychiatrists from all sections of the U. S. met at the 20th annual convention of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. For two days they did nothing but discuss, in the light of latest research, the orchestral effects of the hypothalamus, and pay tribute to the pioneer work of Chicago Neurologist Stephen Walter Ranson, who presented his first outstanding...