Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judges chose 1,214 examples of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. The roster of well-known names-Thomas Hart Benton, Eugene Speicher, Adolf Dehn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, William Zorach, Peggy Bacon, many another-is long, but incomplete. Some (Georgia O'Keefe, Jose de Creeít) did not submit anything. Some (Frederick Waugh, Robert Brackman) were turned down...
...averaged only 33,610. Last week it borrowed another $750,000, bringing to $3,250,000 its borrowings from banks and industry in addition to $6,000,000 subscribed by loyal Californians. It was clear something had to be done. It was. Plump, pompous Chief Director Harris De Haven Connick, who had held his $17,500 job for over a year, was fired...
...their program the Cincinnatians had chosen a massive musical barbecue that only the stoutest and most experienced musical stomachs could digest. Most notable piece de resistance was the huge 8th Symphony of Gustav Mahler, for full chorus, boys' choir, a 102-man symphony orchestra and a choir of brass instruments off stage. One of the most impressive of 20th-century symphonic works, Mahler's immense, unwieldy, hour-and-a-half-long symphony is seldom performed. When Leopold Stokowski played it in Philadelphia 23 years' ago, proud Philadelphians crowed as though they had hatched a world...
This plea, crooned in a soft baritone over the twanging of a cracked and patched guitar, once swayed Texas' Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly...
Strawinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, in 1882. He has lived in Paris during the past twenty years. Among his best known works are "L'Oiseau de Feu," "Petrouchka," "Le sacre du Printemps," "L'Histoire du Soldat," "Oedipus Rex," and "Symphonie de Psaumes...