Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director of the new, nonprofit Music Academy of the West will be plumpish Isabel Morse Jones, whose championship of Western musicians last January cost her her 20-year job as music critic of the Los Angeles Times. Said Isabel of her new school: "We do not aim at educating hundreds. We hope to have a hand in training the talented...
...When Frozen ("Get to the doctor . . . as soon as you can"). Printed in English and in Eskimo syllables (a system of sound-writing which looks something like shorthand), it has helpful hints on how to collect family allowances from the Government, and it tells how to avoid hunger ("aim carefully when you shoot"). But most of The Book of Wisdom is concerned with helping the Eskimo to keep healthy and clean. Excerpts...
...imagination in Berlioz' vein can be confused with eloquence, Shostakovich is an eloquent composer-eloquent perhaps in the manner of the political orator, of the haranguer of the masses, which, indeed, for him seems to be a desirable aim."-Adolfo Salazar, Music in Our Time...
...Congress House, delegates to the International Socialist Congress crammed a 40-hour week of discordant debating into four days, achieved nothing. A Dutch delegate remarked: "It's like a conference of tired businessmen." Said Leon Dennen, an unofficial American observer: "This is an assembly of frightened men, whose aim is to agree on nothing and postpone everything. They are trying to create a new International behind closed doors, hoping it will escape Stalin's attention...
...quickie" course in the principles of Christianity. The only such school in Germany, it was set up by the Rev. Neil Nye, an R.A.F. warden, to supplement the secular re-education of young Germans who have known no god but Hitler. The school's stated aim: to fill "the need for a definite and satisfying faith on which to rebuild the life of Europe." No Church of England outpost, St. Michael's House has an all-German lecturing and administrative staff. A British priest acts as warden...