Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your good-natured and impartial account, (TIME, March 8), of the debate in the Senate on approving for another three years the current trade agreements policy suggests again the remarkable dearth of popular interest in this very practical aspect of our foreign affairs. In what other country with, such far-flung foreign trade and investments would Senators view with genuine alarm an increase in the receipt of the good things of this earth from abroad and cry for a return to the days when we habitually shipped out much more than we received? Intelligent readers desiring light on the facts...
...aspect of this exuberance is the obvious pains that Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have put themselves to in writing the book. They have tried so hard to make their product entertaining that one is somehow won over by the pervasive enthusiasm, and persuaded to forgive them the lack of any brilliance. Their attempts at social comment are especially feeble. They apparently felt that no play could dare to appear before this hyper-socially-conscious world without some reference to President Roosevelt, the American race problem, Communism, and "Comes the Revolution", even if that play be an avowed farce. Their...
...dates and themes of the single lectures are: March 17, the antique origin and the literary aspect of the idyl, the pastoral and the elegy, and mediaeval relics; March 24, the idyl and elegy in early European music before 1600, and Christmas pastorals; March 31, madrigals, opera, cantata and instrumental music of the 16th and 17th centuries; April 14, Bach, Handel, Ramcau, Gluek, Haydn, Mozart; April 21, the romantic and impressionistic aspects of landscape painting in music...
...most significant aspect of the speech lies in its crusading spirit in the nation-wide educational battle. No one is in a better position than Harvard, with its proud scholastic standing and its national scholarships, to lead the way for colleges, whether public or private, whose standards are amorphous and whose funds for less wealthy students at a low ebb. For if future generations are to share the heritage for which Harvard stands, Harvard must point the way to others as well as develop and expand at home...
...white silk ribbons to the main door. From thousands of loyal Italians thronging the streets of Naples went up a mighty roar. To the Princess of Piedmont, Crown Princess Marie-José, had just been born a nine-pound boy "with dark hair, dark eyes and a florid aspect," who may one day sit on the throne of Italy as King Vittorio Emanuele...