Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diaghilev epoch was a long one, done almost to death by ballet enthusiasts during the past few years. Author Kirstein never knew the great impresario but from the testimony of many of his associates he has been able to paint him as a man with surly grandeur, a magnificent snarl, a staggering, penetrating, shrewd instinct. Diaghilev assembled talent which spoke for the best in music, painting, dancing. Pavlova was with him for a time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate...
...mind under capitalism. Eliot's figures are characters of the contemporary scene, caught off their guard, as it were, and snapped in some characteristic stance. In that sense only is it proper for Marxist critics to refer to Eliot as the poet singing the dirge of the capitalist epoch...
Professor Taussig's resignation from the Henry Lee Professorship of Economics after fifty-six years in the service of Harvard and twenty-five years incumbency of that chair marks another epoch in the history of the University as well as the formal ending of Professor Taussig's active teaching. From the time when he was secretary to President Eliot in the year following his graduation, Mr. Taussig has intimately shared in the growth and development of Harvard's institutions and its fame for scholarship...
...Luxe (by Louis Bromfield & John Gearon; Chester Erskin producer) is the kind of play which is so embarrassingly bad that it makes a playgoer's flesh crawl. Billed as "a play about the end of an epoch," it presents a frieze of specious, spotty and purportedly War-wrecked characters against a recent Armistice Day celebration in Paris. Rarely encountered outside the pages of bogus novels, these gloomy folk go about telling each other that they are "so tired," complaining of "the jitters," wishing they were dead. Once in a while one encourages another to "buck...
...there's this to be remembered; nations will have arms in this scrabbled epoch, L. of N. or no. The arms traffic will continue by hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary arms traffic, a publicity that would souse the greater pulps into war scares as liquor puts a drunkard into the gutter, is a ripe tomato in the face of common sense. Have private registration of arms at Geneva; have careful investigations of their use and shipment; but keep the results...