Word: cosmopolitanly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zoltan Kodal's Te Deum reaches heights of beauty rarely heard in any music old or new. Although Kodaly wrote this work for a national Hungarian festival, there seem to be no definite Hungarian traits in the music. His style is, rather cosmopolitan. To speak of the weaknesses first, this modern composer is not a master of the fugue. His individual lines are strong and clean, but he is sloppy in combining them...
Washington Allston, an early U. S. cosmopolitan who spent four years in Rome, became acquainted with Wordsworth and Coleridge, painted powerful romantic landscapes, gradually atrophied in Boston...
...divorced by his second wife, who, as the daughter of Sobsister Adela Rogers St. Johns, comes from an-other celebrated newspaper family. He fictionized stories he had heard as personal experiences in the news rooms of the News, wrote his Farewell to Sports* for Hearst's Cosmopolitan. When he became bored with freelancing last January, the News rehired him at an ordinary reporter's salary to do general assignments, among them the Fisher Body sitdown in Detroit. But stories like that do not break every...
...calmly content in their ignorance, and even if they were given the means whereby to learn of the modern world, the traditions of centuries would keep them as narrow minded and oblivious to the ways of others as the speed of the Twenticth Century narrows the viewpoint of cosmopolitan society. If sophistication, then, is a sign of civilization, the Mexican native is far from uncivilized...
Even in small U. S. towns where ten years ago anything approaching an esthetic gesture would rouse the citizenry to barbaric yawps, dancing is a form of art now highly regarded, whether provided by the Ballet Russe or the Hopi Indians. In Manhattan this week the newly cosmopolitan art of the dance was honored in an ambitious exhibition of no less than 1,304 paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, masks, dolls and costumes drawn from dancing in most of the nations of the world. It was the opening event in a no less ambitious festival called "Dance International," designed to keep...