Word: bashan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There appear side-lights on family life and every-day occurence like "Bashan and I", (Henry Holt and Co.) a dog story. But not until 1925 was there definite proof that Thomas Mann had entered into the didactic and reflective period of his life. "The Enchanted Mountain" has nothing to do anymore with actions and happenings of which Buddenbrooks are as full as an old chronicle. It is purely experience of the soul, action-or not even that,-reflection of the mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd...
...heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation to art as the roaring of the bull of Bashan bears to the voice of Galli-Curci." (TIME, Nov. 15). Declared Walter Damrosch: "If I continue broadcasting one orchestra for two years only, I shall have played and talked to more people than I did in my entire 42 years as opera and orchestra conductor.... I will guarantee to revolutionize the musical tastes...
Voice Pictures, A photographic process made visible the breath of genius that distinguishes opera singers from the bulls of Bashan. A mechanically perfect singer, resting precisely on every note, would give a chart in straight lines. McCormack, Case, Melba, . Farrar and peers, singing Annie Laurie, produced charts in wavy lines, undulated by pitch and intensity-Dr. C. E. Seashore, Iowa State University...