Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Historians at least will scarcely be convinced that this is a struggle between demons and angels." The professor refused to place the guilt wholly on one side, observing that the origins of the National Socialist regime "were not unconnected with French policy and British policy in the period following...
Past history "has pretty clearly shown that the growth of an overwhelmingly powerful state in Europe will not be tolerated." The authority on French history showed how such threats had "been parried by counter-coalitions", citing those against Napoleon, Russia, and Germany in recent times...
...program will include Handel's "Welcome as the Cheerful Light from Jeptha" and "Hallelejah, Amen"; "Good News from Heaven" and "Gavote and Muselk"; Beethoven's "Prometheus Overture"; Purcell's "Andante"; Dargomyzhski's "Chorus from Rogdana"; a French Carol, "Ding, Dong Merrily on High"; "The Birch in the Meadow," a Russian folk song; the American folk Song, "Come All ye Fain and Gentle Ladies"; and the English Carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...Life of Greece, therefore, Will Durant bears the burden of proof. His subject is one which fed and instructed the best minds of several robust centuries (16th, 17th, 18th) and stimulated the liberal revolutionaries who founded the U. S. and French republics. Durant does not capitalize on that. His treatment of Greek literature is more warmly informative than the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but it is commonplace in taste and no match for the subject. His illustrations are less than adequate (no papyrus, no comic masks, no small pottery) though such selections as the archaic mask of "Agamemnon" (see cut) are fresh...
...gives an abundance of the war's history, of which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is well qualified to speak. She handled the press at Geneva when Spain made its futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that battle with our fists and the fascists fought it with heavy artillery." Franco's advance on Barcelona: "An unarmed man is killed, and then the fascists step...