Word: dabblers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engineer Doherty left to become professor and presently engineering dean at Yale. A dabbler in painting, Dean Doherty advocates a flier in fine arts for meticulous, scientific minds...
...Ballet (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). Although he took no credit, he collaborated with Romola Nijinsky on the tragic biography of her husband. No such swift-moving dramatic tale but a rich, fat history of the dance was this week published by Lincoln Kirstein. It proved him no idle dabbler in the subject but an enthusiastic scholar, equipped with information worthy of one twice his years.* If the pattern of Dance is sometimes involved and cluttered, it is because Author Kirstein was unwilling to neglect any phase or style of dancing which even remotely contributed to the evolution...
...dabbler, Iturbi plunged into a program fit to give his hearers an honest test of his ability. He announced that he would begin with two Wagner numbers, Overture to Tannhduser and Prelude to Act i of Lohengrin, then simultaneously play the piano solo and conduct Beethoven's Third Concerto in C Minor, before winding up with the Eroica...
...Forthright, tart-tongued, intellectual, is Daughter Ivy Litvinov. Often a member of Russian delegations in her own right, at Geneva in 1929 she termed U. S. Ambassador Gibson "a contemptible little bounder." A dabbler in literature, she has a mystery thriller to her credit. In Moscow it is her duty to give the best, biggest official parties...
...extremely successful, except among the few students who found his happy sincerity naive. Interesting to many a college man of his generation was last week's news that "Erd" Harris - now an assistant professor at Union Theological Seminary, no longer an extreme Buchmanite, married, and still a dabbler in music and painting - has written a book of advice for young...