Word: angells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Manhattan's up & coming Museum of Modern Art decided to invade Paris, to show the Parisians what U. S. artists had accomplished. Backed by its president and chief angel, genial, glamorless Nelson Rockefeller, the Museum staged an exhibition of U. S. art at the Jeu de Paume Gallery near the Louvre, invited Paris to come and take a look. So successful was the venture that the Modern Museum decided to go on from there, show Paris the artistic achievements of other American countries. Last summer President Rockefeller went to Mexico City to make arrangements for a Modern...
...that time Dwight Macdonald had belatedly capitulated to the Depression's reddest virus, become an apostate from business and grown a (small) Trotsky ite beard. He took up with anti-Stalinists Rahv, Phillips and Dupee. Into the picture, as angel, swam George Lovett Kingsland Morris, who had spent his time collecting and even painting abstract art. Result: the rebirth in December 1937 of Partisan Review, as a vigorously, snobbishly radical and experimentalist literary monthly (later quarterly, now six times a year) which snubbed Dictator Joe Stalin, smiled kindly at Comrade Leon Trotsky...
...amateur Crawfordsville Orchestra eight years ago were two violin-playing housewives (Mrs. James Brown, Mrs. Theodore G. Gronert), musical-minded Lawyer Lowell S. Love, who became the first conductor, and Professor Henry C. Montgomery, who (self-taught) played the French horn, became the orchestra's librarian and guiding angel. With a full concert strength of 55 to 60 musicians, the orchestra now includes music teachers, Wabash students, musically knowledgeable farmers and townsfolk. Ages run from 15 to 61. Some instruments, like the English horn and bass clarinet, are missing. So for its concerts the Symphony augments its ranks...
Such measures are excellent stopgaps, but they cannot remove the real need for an eighth House. The Houses play a paramount part, both socially and intellectually, in the College. They should be for all undergraduates, not almost all. If there is no possibility of getting some rich angel to donate a new House, some other way must be found; possibly an eighth House could be financed on a self-supporting basis...
Thanks considerably to Sepp's print-lashings, Nazis-about-town become annoyed with the Gazette, hatch a scheme to buy over its angel. When Sepp is fired, the whole staff walks out after him, starts a rival paper. Sepp, frantic by now to get back to his music, is caught again...