Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Progressing then to selections from contemporary composers, all of whom were fortunately present to take their bows, we heard consecutively "O Fons Bandusiae" (Randall Thompson) in which both choruses joined to do honor to Horace, "By the Rivers of Babylon" (Loeffier) wherein the Radcliffe girls eloquently express the melancholy of the Psalmist, and "John Brown's Song" (Robert Delaney) which was a strange and certainly modern treatment of the poem by Steven Vincent Benet...
...welcome to their President. A delegation boarded the train to assure him of their joy at his safe return, of their continued support and of their allegiance to the principles for which he stood. The occasion was further enhanced by the presence of the Marine Band which attempted to express the same happy sentiments in an even more vociferous fashion. It was by no means a mere party affair. Senator McNary and some other members of the opposition were magnanimous enough to pay the returning executive the tribute of their presence. After all, this was but a small price...
Surréalisme is a complicated Freudian school of art which numbers among its aims an attempt to express the subconscious by portraying distortions of familiar objects. Its leaders are Joan Miro and Salvador Dali who this week in Manhattan's Julien Levy Gallery exhibited his latest works. He had drawn people with roses for eyes, lamb chops for lips, an aged man with a lobster on his head, a melting grand piano. Claiming to be "obsessed" with Millet's Angelus, he showed variants of the motif with wheel-headed gleaners picking up forks and a poached...
...basic article was FORTUNE'S, not TIME'S; and it by no means settled the question of Preparedness v. Unpreparedness. Nevertheless, for the praise, all thanks.-ED. Sirs: Permit me to express to you the sincere appreciation that I feel from the depth of my heart, for the wonderful article in March issue of FORTUNE on the subject of "Arms and the Men." I feel that your courage in this matter is doing more to set forward the cause of world peace than any single bit of literary endeavor that has been released...
...comedy was at last over. After a year and a half of arrests, releases, trials and retrials in the U. S. Government's efforts to extradite him, Samuel Insull was ordered out of Greece. The understanding was that Fugitive Insull was leaving on the Orient Express for Paris. The sniveling old man who was charged with fraudulent bankruptcy and embezzlement in the U. S. took to his bed, but doctors certified him well enough to travel...