Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immoral and impure theatrical production. The flaw in this statute is the fallibility of human opinion. How is the Grand Jury qualified to decide between indecency and art? Does Eugene O'Neill deserve the same latitude as Shakespeare? Obviously if a hidebound Grand Jury is given rein much classic and modern expression will be throttled. Obviously if the lid is lifted altogether unscrupulous producers will grow fat pandering to the peep-show instinct of the populace...
...seen. He indited the script to "Emperors, Kings, Dukes, Marquises, Earls and Knights," full knowing that the house of Polo would profit by the advertisement. Copies of this manuscript were made in several tongues, which scholars and explorers have annotated through the centuries. The present volume is the classic translation by Scholar Marsden of England (1818), edited now with reference to the most modern scientific research and with an aim forgotten since Marsden's time, in a welter of notes, namely, to make the Polos' travels readable primarily as rare narrative...
Sunday brings the last of the Pops Sunday programs. Tchaikovsky will be featured. The Saturday program is of the usual sort, with classic and popular music in a balanced nation. The program for Saturday follows: March, "El Capitan" Sousa Overture to, "Orpheus" Offenbach Largo from "Xerxes" Handel (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and Strings) Fantasia, "Il Trovatore" Verdi Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Legend Holy Prelude in D-flat Glazonnov-Jacchia Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Berceuse from "Jocelyn" Godard (Solo 'Cello--Jacobus Langendoen) Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel
...they had not seen before. A more than clever member of the Squantum, or the Dorchester, force, remarked that the mist was in a sense a significant item and seemed really romantic. But the captain at the desk suggested that there was in it more the suggestion of a classic influence. So both played checkers for two hours in the hope of solving the problem...
...book, will recate his satirical verses and be accompanied by Mr. Clair Leonard, Harvard instructor and planist, whose ability for extempore musical composition has already been demonstrated to the radio public. Mr. Leonard will play humorous improvisations of the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes music which is regarded as the classic of its kind. The program will occupy a half hour...