Word: academicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must to all men, death came last week to 74-year-old, white-maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate...
Pochapin fortified himself with a selective jury, headed by veteran Artist John Sloan, assisted by Critic-Painter Walter Pach, Painter Howard Patterson, Academician Alphaeus Philemon Cole. Pochapin's jurymen share his crusading zeal...
...academician with books and slide rule could have calculated their attack in advance. It was the experience of living combat airmen and their dead comrades that had worked out the pattern for the attack, now used from the Aleutians to New Guinea, from Burma to Europe's battlefield...
...Bonapartism seemed about to be vived by the Bourbons: the court censor forbade one of Hugo's plays. Hugo's Royalism was replaced by passionate Republicanism. He wrote an ode to the revolutionaries who ousted Charles X (1830). After King Louis-Philippe abdicated (1848), Hugo, now an Academician and ily's insanity. Bethel was judged insane, sent to a sanitarium for 20 years. At that point Sister Lerryn discovered that poor Bethel was not really a Treveryan after all-just "a child Mama had that had not been Papa's." For reasons "we shall never know...
...magnificent sonorities he wrings from it in ensemble approach at times the effect of a full string orchestra, particularly in the rich and lyrical Introduction, which employs melodies from Brazilian jazz to excellent effect. The Prelude and Fugue show a scholarly understanding of Bach worthy of the most erudite academician, yet there is plenty of original vigor; one doesn't feel that this is just another exercise in composition being backed over. Villa-Lobos handles the counter-point perfectly smoothly, and inside this frame-work gives free rein to his own ideas. In the Fugue possibly he confines himself more...