Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simple, clear-thinking Joe Lyons, who was endowed with all the homely virtues, left a record of accomplishment that might have been envied by what many Australians considered more brilliant predecessors. "Honest Joe" abandoned teaching school for a political career at the age of 30; energy and courage made him a Labor Premier in ultraconservative, mountainous Tasmania, smallest and loveliest of the Australian States...
...dirty streets, weeping and beating their breasts over the sudden death of 27-year-old King Ghazi I. Iraq's council of ministers announced that the next King would be Ghazi's three-year-old baby boy, Feisal II. For 14 years, until Feisal comes of age, Iraq will be ruled by a regent chosen from among royal uncles and cousins, who may easily fall prey to Iraq's Anglophobe troublemakers. How successful the British may be in educating Feisal to love England remains to be seen, but they will certainly try not to make the mistake...
...Yale, and in 1937 he retired. But retirement, to Harvey Cushing, did not mean rest. He hates vacations, spends his day at the New Haven Hospital. In the evenings he plays backgammon with kindly, sociable Mrs. Cushing. His greatest relaxation is playing with his two little granddaughters, Sarah Delano (age seven) and Kate (age three), the children of his charming, blue-eyed daughter Betsey (Mrs. James Roosevelt). Social affairs he has always detested. Mrs. Cushing tells a story of how she once tricked him into going to a coming-out party. As they drove up to the hotel...
...little nor solemn. The Mass took almost two hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini, one of the laziest and wittiest of all composers, wrote his Solemn Mass in 1863 at the age of 71, called it his "last mortal sin," marked one passage Allegro Cristiano (quick but Christian), confessed he did not know whether it was "musique sacrée ou sacrée musique" (sacred or accursed music), made one tenor solo, Domine Deus, sound like a swashbuckler's serenade...
...cope with some of the more extreme forms of modernism; I concluded that his powers of connoisseurship were not translatable into the present tense. Not the least "dangerous" thing about the arts in our time is their demand that we see in them something more than the application of age-old principles to now materials, their claim that the new forms must inevitably change old conceptions of what constitutes "beauty", what constitutes indeed a work of art. Since it is quite probable that there are as many masterpieces ahead of us as behind us, and that present and future accomplishments...