Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether due to division between the Farley group and the Janizariat, or to laziness after too much past success, the Democratic vote-getting machine which had worked brilliantly for eight years, conspicuously fell down...
...this most Dada of the Dadaists resigned from the group, ostensibly because Dada was beginning to develop certain rational theories which led to Surrealism. He collaborated on a ballet with Composer Erik Satie, on a brilliant movie, Entr'acte, with René Clair, and, in the true Dada spirit, accepted the rosette of the Legion of Honor. Wealthy and well advertised by Gertrude Stein, in the last few years Picabia has rested on his reputation, yachting and developing an elegantly fretful manner. Last week Paris was shocked at 60-year-old Yachtsman Picabia's latest show...
...Sponsor of the venture was U. S. Conductor Leon Barzin, who has long mulled over the problem of how U. S. pianists and fiddlers who are not headliners can get a chance to play with an orchestra. Conductor Barzin's new American Orchestra, a professional, unionized, 72-man group of players, offered its services to soloists at a minimum price of $1,800 per concert. First taker, who appeared last week in a Carnegie Hall concert with the new group, was U. S. Pianist Frank Bishop. Pianist Bishop played three concertos, broke down in two of them...
...member of the International Wheat Advisory Committee, has been the principal impediment to world stabilization of wheat 'prices. Mr. Theis's desire to sell wheat to Brazil, a fat Argentine wheat market, was calculated to joggle Argentina one step nearer to cooperation with the international group...
Durrell is a 27-year-old Anglo-Irishman, born in Burma and raised on the border of Tibet, now working as clerk at the Ionian Bank in Corfu. Insofar as it has a story, The Black Book tells of a group of people living in a stuffy English hotel -all neurotic, frustrated, savage and obsessed with sex. The narrator brings home an 18-year-old tuberculous prostitute, Gracie, speculates about his neighbors, suffers a baffled, angry grief at Gracie's death...