Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trains thundering down upon Jehol. While far off battles raged-with Japanese victories a foregone conclusion-he could review with warm satisfaction the manner in which since last spring obstacles to "The Way of the Perfect Emperor" have melted away. Obstacle of doubt at home. Obstacle of interfering white folk abroad...
This befuddlement arises mainly from failure to distinguish between the serious industrial and economic problem which intelligent folk have long admitted, and the particular "ism" adumbrated by a word. Technocracy, which was invented by William Henry Smyth...
...Russians, who constantly read in the Soviet Press that President & Mrs. Kalinin are extremely frugal folk and that she has managed successively a textile factory and two big collective farms in different parts of the Union during the past few years, Farmer Campbell's chatter would recall Moscow rumors that the President keeps a vivacious mistress who might easily be mistaken by Mr. & Mrs. Campbell for his wife. In Russia, however, the President does not matter. Josef Stalin matters. Last week another part of Farmer Campbell's book-the part in which he describes his meeting with...
...Fraser was still devoting himself to a mastery of counterpoint and orchestration, these essays show a keen perception and understanding. Whether he treats of Prokofieff or Wagner, he writes with a detached and unwavering judgment. To him the greatest of music is a combination of form and inspiration. Folk songs should not be an end in themselves, but a tool in the hands of a Vaughan Williams or a Chopin for the highest realization of their possibilities. Nationalism in music is for him a fallacy, since music is so universal as to be above political cr even racial boundaries...
...invalid poetess was the season's sensation. There are figures to prove it. When she withdrew the Manhattan production to take it on the road it was still doing $20,000 worth of business a week. She grossed $33,000 in Philadelphia during Holy Week. Ten thousand folk were turned away from a benefit performance in Chicago. When the tour ended in San Francisco, The Barretts had taken...