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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other writers here in Hollywood who would testify to having had the same interview given to them by Miss Bankhead. Word for word the story was authentic and veracious save for the necessary deletion of certain unprintable words and expressions which Miss Bankhead used and I omitted. Otherwise, the content of the story was exact, as she very well knows. I have been interviewing the players of the screen and stage for the past 19 years at the rate of from two to four a week and over this period of time my entire output has been published. This...
...their internal relations to Harvard itself are concerned, the men of 1936 should be well content with their lot. In the House Plan, theirs is a charted course. The experience of the past two years has wrought significant changes which will be to the advantage of all, but especially to those now entering. To graduate in the Tercentenary year, moreover, is no small honor, measured by alumni standards of recollection. Today's Freshmen have indeed been well started on their undergraduate career...
...content merely with presenting his statistics, Roger Babson also offers advice. Ministers with dwindling congregations, says he, should be aware of, and seek to correct, the following conditions...
Making a vital distinction between "mass" and "class," he defines "mass-mind" as the commonplace mind, no matter in what class it is found. The massman is barbarian, only concerned with his own wellbeing, content to plunder civilization, not labor intelligently to continue it. By his definition of "barbarian" Ortega y Gasset covers a multitude of public "leaders": "If anyone in a discussion with us is not concerned with adjusting himself to truth, if he has no wish to find the truth, he is intellectually a barbarian. That, in fact, is the position of the massman when he speaks, lectures...
...captious folk this outlay of Gershwin revealed a weakness of structure, a lack of variety. But most of the Stadiumgoers were well content to take Gershwin's agile, rhythmic music on its own terms. They had heard before The Rhapsody in Blue, the sly American in Paris, the workman-like Concerto in F. From familiar Gershwin shows came the overture to "Of Thee I Sing," "Wintergreen for President," and a medley of "Fascinating Rhythm." "Liza," "The Man I Love," "I Got Rhythm." New to the Stadium were the other two numbers, conducted by Albert Coates: the highbrow Second Rhapsody...