Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Jefferson designed his own memorial, it probably would not have been much different from what John Russell Pope has created. Jefferson was a great admirer of classic architecture and was responsible for the "classic revival" which for the first time put America artistically...
...bestowal of genius upon Tschaikovsky, called the whole work an act of "homage," pieced it together from Tschaikovsky melodies. The music was distinguished only by some new harmonic departures. George Balanchine's choreography proceeded unimpeachably, caused raised eyebrows only when the Fairy Queen, in the midst of a classic dance duet, wrapped an unexpected leg around her partner's torso...
...striking back with a stinging denunciation of Nazi censorship, he carried on his attack with lectures, mass meetings, an impressive barrage of speeches and statements. Dr. Mann's most telling blast was in his pamphlet, An Exchange of Letters,* which critics recognized as belonging with such classic literary rebukes as Zola's J'Accuse. Like most such spontaneous expressions of intellectual integrity, An Exchange of Letters was called into being by a relatively small occasion. Last December Dr. Mann received a curt note from the Frederick-William University, of Bonn, stating that since "Herr Thomas Mann, writer...
...BOOK of HOURS-Donald Culross Peattie-Putnam ($2.50). Rosary-like, 202-page addenda to Author-Naturalist Peattie's An Almanac for Moderns, brummagem "classic." Illustrations by Lynd Ward...
...runners were undismayed by their none too auspicious showing. Scofield declared proudly that they led Tarzan Brown for a good bit of their run. Asked if they would attempt the classic in 1938, he said, "Sure...