Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Small local stations have greater appeal to low-income groups than to higher earning brackets. Likely reasons: the poor listener likes to hear of advertisers with whom he is familiar; foreign born like local programs in their own language; farmers like to hear folksy shows, Bible-hours that never get on the chains...
Composer Menotti is not worried about opera's future. Chief troubles with it nowadays, he feels, are that its theatres are too big, its language foreign, its settings antiquated. A simple melodist in his own music, Menotti dismisses most modernists as bad craftsmen, thinks the salvation of music lies in a return to intelligible musical language. U. S. composers, he thinks, are under an unfair handicap: "You still want foreign names; that's one thing that has been in my favor." About his operatic preoccupation with feminine foibles, 27-year-old Menotti explains: "Women, to fascinate men, must...
...Because the Sûreté Nationale had been warned by an anonymous letter writer that saboteurs were out to sink French Line ships, because fires have become too frequent on French ships to be accidental, Frenchmen felt positive that the burning of the Paris was the work of foreign agents who do not want her used for military purposes if and when war comes to Europe...
...Foreign nations put up $31,000,000 for buildings alone, sent $100,000,000 worth of exhibits to fill them. This was the first of Whalen's big coups. When he went to Europe he found that all the major nations except Russia belonged to the International Bureau of Expositions. When the Bureau decided on only a limited participation in the fair, President Whalen blandly returned to Manhattan, presently announced that Russia would build a $4,000,000 pavilion. Unwilling to play second fiddle in any swing session of propaganda, the other nations promptly upped their appropriations...
...likelihood of loss from war. He argues that only 500,000 of his hoped-for visitors are expected from Europe, that the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 succeeded in the face of a war, and that anyhow there is a strong nonwar omen in the fact that foreign exhibitors have not been holding back...