Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good productions of the present group are their almost patented Americana numbers, "Rodco" and "Frankie and Johnny" being the most popular examples. A second viewing of "Rodeo" Tuesday night was much pleasanter than this reviewer had expected. The charm of Aaron Copland's folk-like music, the vivacious gaiety of Agnes DcMille's dances, the colorful costuming, and the simple, attractive story stand up very well indeed beside works of greater fame...
...greatest man in the world today?" Abraham Aaron Roback, onetime Harvard instructor, thinks he knows. Roback has never seen him, but for five years he has been working on a book to honor him, "a man without parallel, in our generation." The great man's name: Albert Schweitzer...
...Recited Aaron Sharov glowingly to a Moscow meeting: "I ... a toolmaker of the seventh category . . . propose the candidacy of our beloved Comrade Stalin." The chairman intoned a Soviet litany: "[We] nominate the true continuer of the cause of Lenin, the wise leader of the Soviet people, the creator of the might of our he "land, the organizer and inspirer of the historic victory over Fascist Germany and Imperial Japan, the brilliant Army leader, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin." The press pitched into the campaign. One day Pravda would report that American women were being forced into prostitution by unemployment, the next...
Gain or Obstacle? Labor's first reaction was mostly favorable. Said President Aaron Mosher of the Canadian Congress of Labor: "A good equivalent of the union shop." Elroy Robson, President of the C.C.L. Toronto Labor Congress, said the ruling was "worthy of the wisdom of a Solomon...
...college does not show its years. Beloit was once called the "Yale of the West" because two of its founders, Stephen Peet and Aaron Chapin, and its first two faculty members were all Yale men. Today it calls itself the oldest college in the Northwest,* and boasts of a top drawer anthropology department, with a $200,000 museum of its own (Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is a Beloit graduate). One of Beloit's attractions for its students is its ability to hang on to some of the freshwater college atmosphere so dear to the scenarists who wrote Jack Oakie...