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...writings, reveal an esthetic clearheadedness, a critical sanity quite unusual in a day when loose-thinking esthetes customarily employ such meaningless terms as "realities" and "eternal," choose the most nebulous polysyllables to describe their obscure aims. Modernists, of course, vilify Royal Cortissoz as a fogey if not, indeed, a fool. From them he receives the same stigma of petrifaction which they apply to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME...
...Fool's Paradise. From Australia The Commercial's correspondent reported: "Recent events apparently justify the repeated warning of financial critics that we have been 'living in a fool's paradise. . . ." Probable decline in exports for the current year (1929-30) of as much as £30,000,000. . . . Undoubtedly the chief depressing influences were the decline in the price of wool and . . . a pronounced tightening in the international money markets [which] has seriously affected the capacity of London to supply Australian Governments with their usual quota of loan funds?from...
...other ideas, sent him to the University of Pennsylvania, then out on the road to sell hats. But the son revolted, became a low-comedy vaudevillian, remained one for eleven years. In 1914 he was given a part in the Ziegfeld Follies. Other Wynn appearances were in The Perfect Fool, Grab Bag, Manhattan Mary...
...evening sang at a night club. Here in Boston I spend my time studying voice. I am preparing to give a concert of American, folk-songs in the near future. Not those popular songs but semi-classical music. And then my publicity manager is always thinking up some fool publicity stunt to take up my time...
...minds of their own, or the liberty of going about the city unchaperoned. Fellow students enjoyed blocking the young woman's path to classrooms and simpering sarcasms in her presence. "A woman of genius might reasonably consider a profession, but surely an ordinary woman shouldn't." "Fool men go in for medicine, why not a fool woman?" But Maria Montessori had the satisfaction of being the first woman to get an M.D. from the University of Rome...