Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give an illuminating review of the various farm relief plans. On most of them you offer brief and intelligent comment, but you present Farmer Campbell's plan without comment, which makes me half afraid that you favor it. The gist of his plan is to industrialize farming and conduct it on a Ford-factory basis. Under his plan, the agricultural land of America would be held by a comparatively few individuals and corporations, and it would be operated by hired labor, just as steel mills and automobile factories are operated. The laborers-the real dirt farmers-would thus...
Boston had the honor last week of being first to entertain Maurice Ravel, French composer, come for his first U. S. visit. She received him royally, gave him her best when she put her Symphony at his disposal, turned out then in great numbers to hear him conduct his own works in a manner almost as gratifying as their own Koussevitzky's. Manhattan heard him next and as pianist under the auspices of her pro-musica society. She rose to her feet when he came on the stage?a slight, aristocratic figure with graying hair. She listened to a program...
...with the creation of music: for grown-ups his orchestral valse, his mocking Tziganes, his naughty I'Heure Espagnole; for children, his lovely Mother Goose suite and l'Enfant et les Sortileges?a happier balance than his contemporaries have found. In the U. S. for three months, he will conduct the New York, Boston, San Francisco and Cleveland orchestras, will appear also in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, St. Louis, Houston and Philadelphia...
...noisy trappings was for Pianist Vladimir Horowitz*, and served him accordingly. Sir Thomas came back with Mozart's C Major Symphony, Berlioz' Chasse Royale et I'Orage, Wagner's Meistersinger overture. The audience stayed long after he was through, cheered him, regretted unanimously that he was to conduct only four concerts...
...leaves her work to join her lover. They take up their abode on the heights of Montmartre, where in a brilliantly gay ceremony Louise is crowned queen of the quarter. One day the mother tells Louise that her father is gravely ill as the result of his daughters conduct, and humbly asks Julien to allow Louise to nurse her father for a few days. Julien consents. At home again, Louise learns that she was the victim of a ruse to separate her from her lover. She chafes at confinement until her father, beside, himself in the rage and disappointment, turns...