Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among the rest of the world. The presence of a representative from Harvard is of high importance at a time when failure to send one could easily be interpreted as an indication of the University's aloofness. Much misunderstanding lies on both sides. Discussions, committees, and contacts may not clear the differences away, but they are at least courageous attempts. The failure of Harvard to concern itself with the proceedings would be detrimental in the worst sense to its wider interests...
With or without premises, the book is extraordinary reading, a calm, clear view of what goes on beyond the newspaper headlines. It is not a book for the sentimental or morbid...
...Trinity Term that Oxford blooms with unbelievable richness. She is most easily appreciated then set in the rich green of meadows and fields by two beautiful rivers, now covered with punts and canoes; old trees line the roads and walks, the air is sweet and clear and fresh, and the Colleges sparkle in the sunshine. It is now that one knows the High is the finest street in Europe, and that Troy could never have been more beautiful than this old city and its ancient University
...Monk" called Rasputin, or the "Debauchee," he recoiled with a slight gesture of disgust. Since His Imperial Highness' wife is a sister-in-law of the assassinated Tsaritsa Alexandra, who was the chief patroness of Rasputin, no subject would well have been more delicate. When it was made clear however that the questioner did not share the commonly received opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very strong! And he was a great healer. Two, three or four times he saved the life...
...Thus did Composer Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come in the second movement dated for the Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches of old Negro songs, of "Old Folks...