Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SOME years ago when the average reader thought of English converts to the Roman Catholic Church, he immediately recalled Messrs. Belloc, Chesterton, and D.B. Wyndham Lewis; now he adds perforce the name of Mr. Dawson. Mr. Dawson resembles his three associates in many respects: he is an historian, for example, who endeavours to re-write the Whig historians, whose anti-Catholic bias is one of the disgraces of modern historiography. Unlike Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton, Mr. Dawson is imbued with the modern ideal of impartiality, and even in his attempt to secure justice for the faith he never leans over...
...present volume consists in the first part of essays on mediaeval religion, originally presented at the Forwood Lectures for 1934 at the University of Liverpool; the second part is "The Origins of the Romantic Tradition," which first appeared in the "Criterion"--like Mr. Ezra Pound, Mr. Dawson finds the essence of Romanticism, without XIXth century secretions, in the Provencel literary tradition, when literature and religion co-operated and collaborated, and the present dualism was yet unknown; the third part is a paper on "Piers Plowman." There is a central unity, however, for Mr. Dawson's concern throughout is with...
...William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony had a few exciting moments when drum beats drilled out a climax in true African fashion. But for the rest Composer Dawson appeared to have forgotten his primitive background. After his shoe-shining days in Anniston, Ala., he worked ambitiously at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. He studied music in Kansas City, later in Chicago where Conductor Frederick Stock chose him for his first trombonist. He returned to Tuskegee in 1930, to head the music department, direct the choir...
...Negro Symphony Composer Dawson wanted to voice the struggles of his people. He used Negro folk themes but he dressed them with such fancy orchestration that they lost their force and spontaneity. Applause was more for Dawson, the Negro who had managed to have a piece played by the proud Philadelphia Orchestra, than for a symphony which was for the most part undistinguished, a conventional copy of the white man's ways...
...collector the late florid George Dawson Rowley of Brighton attempted to avoid competition by concentrating on the eggs and skins of the extinct Great Auk. He assembled the greatest collection of Auk eggs in the world before his death. At the sale last week Captain Vivian Hewitt (first aviator to fly the Irish Sea-1912) bought two eggs and two skins, for a total of $7,245, and these added to his previous collections made him in turn the world's greatest private Great Auk collector. The Rev. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Vicar of Ashburn-cum-Mapleton, president...