Word: forgottenness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...English Folk Dance Society which is to present old English dances for a Bostonian, audience tomorrow night exemplifies once again the present day tendency to attempt to preserve the half-forgotten practices of the past. Unfortunately, most of these movements get started too late to save many of the most interesting examples of former arts, but the present society has had the great advantage of coming into existence before folk dancing was added to the already too long list of lost arts...
...than his due. The wondrous relics found in his tomb far outshine the history of his political achievements. Mile. Tabouis, learned, impassioned, recites that history, conjures up its sociological, scientific and commercial background. But the illustrations in her book are only added testimony that this mighty man would be forgotten were it not for the glittering chrysalis of stone and metal in which he lived...
This is a red-letter week for the Vagabond. The season's first appearance in Cambridge of Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra is sufficient to evoke enthusiasm from The Vagabond, who has not forgotten the first of the series of concerts which have periodically relieved the strain of a pedestrian education. Thursday's program from Beethoven. Stravinsky, and Tchaikowsky holds a pleasant promise to carry over the last stretch of hour examinations...
...playground on Saturdays. The mornings have been devoted to playing hide and seek with the revered officers of the law. In the afternoons, as the crowd pours through the gates to witness the over-emphasis of football in the weekly titanic struggles, the boys go into action. They have forgotten the beneficence of the Harvard Athletic Association which has played host to them on previous Saturdays and now become an annoyance to the cash customers...
...Gerardo Machado: ''We are sure that she will demonstrate the sympathy the sentiment and artistic capacity of the Cuban people." But unfortunately Soprano Otero was unequal to the occasion. Her pleasing, natural tone could not offset faulty breathing. Once her over-taxed voice ran down like a forgotten phonograph. Accompanist Frank La Forge tried to save the situation with a skillfully improvised finale. Emma herself might have followed the accepted procedure for erring singers: hold a pose and hope for the best. Instead she grimaced, vanished through the curtains. A few seconds later she popped her head...