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...newsman must have the brass to ask what are generally called "embarrassing questions." This quality Mr. Howard displayed in full measure in his interview with Dictator Stalin, whom it is virtually impossible to embarrass. Consequently their conversation, even after filtering through the Chief Soviet Censor, was a merry din of brass clashing upon steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Brass v. Steel | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...scarcely have been worse. The week before, Napoleon had taken the city with the result that Austria's music patrons had withdrawn to the country. Temperature in the theatre was below freezing. Apathetic music critics found the score abounding in repetitions while the orchestra kept up a perpetual din. After three performances Beethoven's one & only opera was with drawn from the stage, branded a failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dearest Child | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Carpenters, painters, plasterers were making an unholy din in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. With deeply furrowed brow, Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. had retired to his office and was scowling at an unproductive typewriter. Scattered about the floors were strange objects of wood, rusted iron, marble, plate glass, polished brass. All of them were heavy and a great many of them were extremely large. With 150 paintings, they made up the largest exhibition of abstract art New York has yet seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Solid Abstractions | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...England was bled until there were such things as a Labor Cabinet, a British General Strike, a Depression and 11,000,000 British votes for the League of Nations, which signifies nothing if it does not signify the passing of Imperialism. When this has passed, what becomes of Gunga Din, of Privates Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd and of the Road to Mandalay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King of English | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...creatures of infinite adaptability, they make themselves comfortable and thrive in torrid and frigid zones, on mountains and in prairies. Skillfully they adjust themselves to the slowness of farm life, to the speed of great cities. But medical authorities say that men do not adapt themselves to ceaseless din. In New York City recently an insistent band of noise-haters has tried to get the clamors of their metropolis abated. Last week loud Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular heed to motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Less Noise | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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