Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning: Somehow I feel that thou art near, Though naught there is around, which the composer, one Rudolph Ganz, dedicated to Marguerite Namara, opera star. Odd corners of the large glazed pages were filled with practical workroom suggestions for young singers, with reviews of concerts and operas, and glib comment on vocal activities by one "Ariel." Yet, despite the fact that the first issue of any magazine is inevitably an awkward one, critics found Singing far less dull than many of the slovenly publications in which ruined musicians try to earn a living by writing about music. Vocal students bought...
...background against which to view the present scene in its proper proportion." Now the News writer, looking for some item on which he could compose an editorial that would entertain the chicle-chewing rag, tag and bobtail, happened upon Mr. Seitz's article, and the Outlook's comment upon Mr. Seitz. He noted with joy that Mr. Seitz had offered criticism on some of the more unfortunate elements of modern life-the very elements of which the News is Herald and High Defender. Ha! here was dragon's meat indeed. Class prejudice could be stirred up like...
Discussion about education inevitably comes back to the educator. Not all the problems of the modern university, to be sure, but a great many of them, would be solved if only the magic formula for producing great teachers could be discovered. Comment of this sort, at all times prolific, has recently taken a more than usually practical turn in a burst of critical examination of the University's graduate school from which come many of the country's and not a few of Harvard's own prominent educators...
President Lowell in his recent report called attention to the narrowness of the training which candidates for the doctorate undergo. In the current Alumni Bulletin is significant comment on one phase of this subject: "The average graduate student is greatly stimulated and enriched not only by his opportunities for study, but by his contact with his fellow-students, and carries the memory and the inspiration to the end of his days. But the social values are realized not because of, but in spite of, the conditions of his life in Cambridge. These men are the future professors of American colleges...
...again justified the comment of a Monte Carlo croupier: "Man dieu! One can understand why the Americans do not love opera, if theirs are all like this!" But the "poppy ballet," and the "lily ballet," and the "melodies which flow along easily and attach themselves to the memory with pleasurable effects," were all applauded with "real hand-stinging claps...