Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct this array of voices and instruments through a piece certainly not noted for its simplicity, is an undertaking worthy of Boston's greatest Symphonic leader. Born at Tver, in the north of Russia, M. Koussevitsky began the study of music very early in life. At the age of twelve he led the Municipal Orchestra in a brilliant concert, and was considered the prodigy of the age. Later he played the double bass in the Moscow Imperial Orchestra, until he again took up conducting...
Books pass current for a sort of slice from life; it is life as reflected, then, which is objectionable to these self-styled judges for the people. "Evil to him who evil thinks." Great books in every age have grappled with the raw problems of life, near as they are to universal experience. The Albany legislators either deny the reality of these problems, or think that they can legislate them into smoke by passing bills against pictures or representations of these problems in one form or another. In their zeal for meddling and political quackery, the sponsors of the "Clean...
...Guggenheim Foundation which has just been announced marks another epoch in this movement. It affords the freest possible opportunities for advanced study and research in the sciences, learned professions, and fine arts. No age limits are prescribed, the fellowships will be open to both men and women of every race, color and creed. The awards will enable students to "carry on their studies in any country in the world where they can work most profitably," Mr. Guggenheim states as the purpose of the foundation to "improve the quality of education" and the "practice of the arts and professions...
...from the late Emperor's Diary, published by Karl Werkmann, his private secretary, reproduced by the Italian Corriere della Sera of Milan and reproduced by The Living Age, comes a new story about Horthy's alleged perfidy...
...Editor of The Woodville Republican, 100 years of age, and Mississippi's oldest newspaper, and, by the way, is, and has ever been an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party, I want to congratulate the management of TIME upon the excellence it has attained and the high standard it maintains. . . . I read it with interest each week and, as my subscribers often write me, "I look forward to its arrival with anticipated pleasure...