Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost daily habit of Ambassador & Mrs. Davies is to walk about two miles from their home in white marble Spasso Palace around the vast, tall-turreted Kremlin Fortress. Embassy offices are in a brand-new Soviet marble building, not in the modernistic style which used to be characteristic of Communist architecture, but an affair of Corinthian columns with acanthus-leaf capitals suggesting the First National Bank in an Ohio or Illinois city. There are not many of these new bourgeois buildings yet in Red Moscow, but they bear out in unmistakably bourgeois architecture the fact that J. Stalin & Co.- although...
According to this plan, Harvard will attempt to inoculate students with the habit of independent reading and intensive study apart from courses to prevent the after-the-degree forgetfulness of "intellectual and spiritual growth." To Dr. Conant it seems "a hopeless task to provide a complete and finished liberal education suitable to this century by four years of college work." In other words, he believes that "the only worth-while liberal education today is one which is a continuing process throughout life." Accordingly, by this "extra- curricular study" the university at Cambridge will instill that educational virus which alone retains...
...Murray Butler's requirement that education should be the "gradual adjustment to the spiritual possession of the race, with a view to realizing one's own potentialities and assisting in carrying forward that complex of ideas, acts and institutions which we call civilization," Princeton must instill in us that habit of intellectual growth, in order to improve "the big American disappointment" the man educated in the university. --The Princetonian
...performance will get the good house it deserves. Incidentally, there are still some seats available for the remaining quarter of the Symphony season at a very low rate. These seats include subscription privileges for next year and certainly offer an unusual opportunity to begin the very worthwhile "Symphony habit". Inquiries should be made at Symphony Hall in Boston...
...ardent passages Rodzinski still likes to put down his baton and shape the music with his bare hands, a habit he picked up from Stokowski. From Stokowski too he may well have learned the flexible beats and ingenious phrasing that made many concertgoers consider him the ablest conductor they had heard this season. Others felt he exaggerated certain passages beyond all reason, such as the second movement of the Sibelius Second which he takes more slowly than any other conductor alive...