Word: blas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illustrious Model T, with steady growth of Ford European companies, Henry Ford is well pleased with the automotive business and vigorously engaged in making his company bigger, better than ever before. Heavy, however, has been the personnel overturn at the Ford plant, particularly executive personnel. Detroit has become almost blasé concerning appointments, rearrangements and resignations among the men who help make the Ford...
Tonight's pops concert, to be held in Symphony Hall, will begin at 8.15 o'clock. The program follows: Marche Militaire Schubert Overture to "Ruy Blas" Mendelssohn "On the Steppes of Middle-Asia" Orchestra Sketch Borodin Orchestral Sketch Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Overture to "Sicilian Vespers" Verdi Symphonic Piece from "Redemption" Franck Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg First Hungarian Dance in G minor Brahms Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner
Parisians, wholesomely blasé to most human foibles, read last week with revulsion of the strange cravings of geophagists...
...Blas and other French Novels," Professor Sever 23, English...
Aldous Huxley, nephew of the great Darwinian, smart, fashionable, blasé, ice-cold, most devilishly clever of all the devilishly clever young littérateurs who make the waterside, of Chelsea inundate all London with lavender and mauve intellectual meanderings, has written down his opinion of the popular music of today. The essay has been published-in Vanity Fair. It defends the thesis that the evolution of popular music has run parallel, on a lower plane, with the evolution of serious music. Beethoven, ultimately and indirectly, is responsible for all the lan- guishing waltz tunes, all the dramatic jazzings...