Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wounds among New Dealers wrote that Aubrey Williams had long been willing to step out of WPA in order to devote himself to his job as head of the National Youth Administration, that Colonel Harrington was reasonably liberal in outlook (considering his distinguished record as an Army engineer, his background, his association with "the best people...
Genevieve Taggard, teacher (at Sarah Lawrence College), biographer (of Emily Dickinson), editor (of The Measure, a magazine of verse) last month published her Collected Poems (Harper, $2.50). With her rich literary background and varied social experience, she writes as one who feels that she is expected to say something rich and varied. Her poems are stopgaps for silence-what their author apparently feels would be an embarrassing silence. But since silence speaks louder than stopgaps, her poems give a net impression of saying nothing. Her lyrics, whether addressed to Nature or to Man, all share the same insufficiency...
...whole and healthy a body has great need of a brain. The vast realm of modern commercial designing has a similar need. No candidates for this cortical job in the U. S. have appeared with sounder title to it than a half-dozen recent emigrants from Germany. Their common background: the famous Bauhaus (Building House), which had an incandescent pioneering success in Germany between 1919 and 1933. To show what this background was, Manhattan's rich, responsible Museum of Modern Art last week opened the first comprehensive show of Bauhaus work yet held...
These findings, published in eight newspapers, aroused Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's) to deny publicly any connection with the study, deny its attributed audience of 15,900,000, declare such figures "unsound and confusing." Advertising Age, admen's newspaper, reported a long background of discussions toward a cooperative study by advertising agencies and leading magazine publishers to measure "the limits of magazine audiences, thus giving advertisers a readership potential comparable with the number of radio sets," hazarded a guess that publication of LIFE's first findings might accelerate this cooperative project...
...With a background of jam sessions with Bennie Goodman and Casa-Loma, and two years experience as a band leader, Michael I. Levin '42 will talk on "Jazz, its Origin and Place in American Life" at 7 o'clock tonight in the Union. The program is to be illustrated by records and by playings...