Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Power Biggs, Organist of the Harvard Church, Brookline, will give twelve recitals covering the complete organ literature of Johann Sebastian Bach on the new Classic organ in the Romanesque Hall of the Germanic Museum. The recitals will be divided into two groups of six and will be given on Monday evenings, November 1, November 8, November 15, November 22, November 29, December 6, 1937, and March 7, March 14, March 21, March 28, April 1 (Friday), April...
...stadium was filled to capacity with roaring, cheering, excited masses of humanity. Two teams, representing middle-western colleges, were battling it out on the well-marked expensive grid-iron below. It was the annual classic event between two so-called Universities, although neither University had ever distinguished itself for anything but an extraordinary capacity to turn out all-American football players...
...increasingly strange case of Reichsbank President & Economics Minister Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, who recently laid his resignation before Adolf Hitler (TIME, Sept. 27), significantly pointed up last week the curious fashion in which Nazidom is ruled. Unlike Mussolini, who is a Dictator in the classic sense, the Führer does not so much dictate as preside over a cluster of semiautonomous, mutually-jealous State and Party cliques, intervening chiefly when their affairs have reached a crisis. In his alternately moody or excited fashion Hitler talks with fewer leading men in a week than Mussolini calls in and actively...
...parallel to the inflation that has skyrocketed the value of John Steinbeck first editions, bibliophiles must turn to the classic rise in the price of calves' liver, once given away in most butcher shops, currently selling at 85? a Ib. Distributed free to Publisher Covici-Friede's friends last Christmas, Author Steinbeck's St. Katy the Virgin, a short story, is now quoted at $10. Published last fortnight in an edition limited to 699 autographed, de luxe copies, Novelist Steinbeck's latest work, The Red Pony, was quoted at $10 a copy, and no man knew...
Such men, who combined a classic culture with an interest in public affairs and whose activities seemed to spread effortlessly in all directions at once, are now a disappearing U. S. type. In John Jay Chapman and His Letters the biographer's style, more than faintly George Apley-esque, adds if anything to the museum atmosphere. Made up half of letters and half of commentary, its appeal for most readers will be in the peppery aphorisms of the man himself, scattered through his correspondence: "The essential lack in Wagner is after all a want of sanitary plumbing...