Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the San Francisco Opera ran no deficit. Last season there was one of some $30,000. Merola often undertakes a performance with next to no rehearsals; Hertz demands many. But as the solid old German stood in the pit last week, sweat gleaming from his bald pate, his beard pointing eagerly toward the stage. San Franciscans forgot all about dollars and deficits in the fine sweep of his orchestral performance...
After setting forth certain pertinent facts, Mr. Beard ventured into the realm of opinion, which he defined as "a valued judgment to be tested by the merciless court of history that is to be made." "A nation," he said, "is a collection of people capable of self-government and cooperative enterprise in the national geographical theatre. It is not in the national interest to bring into the United States races that cannot fit into the pattern of national life and cooperate in discharging the necessary economic obligations. There is no advantage economic or otherwise by the sale of American goods...
Advocating a strong nationalistic policy for the United States, Charles A. Beard, noted Columbia professor, defined national interest as acquiring what we need with the best possible advantage through imports and discontinuing the selling of American goods abroad. The plan he outlined raises many questions which he did not adequately concern himself with or think important...
...spoke about establishing a high standard of living for everyone but did not mention definitely what criteria he would use to determine what this was or how he would erect a standard that would be acceptable to all people and for all times. In one breath Mr. Beard spoke about the high civilization and culture of the Orientals and at the same time said they should be excluded from the United States because they caused social conflict that was unresolvable. As in most of his utterances Mr. Beard stressed economic considerations to the exclusion of all other points of view...
...Beard's desire to establish "a decent American civilization" is admirable but it is doubtful if such a plan of isolation and independence that he suggests would accomplish this purpose. Nationalism eventually leads to a false idea of unity and self-sufficiency and while not "perverse" is certainly naive, short-sighted, and counter to all the traditional ideas and laws of economics...