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Strand is president of the board of directors of Frontier Films, an organization dedicated to "the production of films that truthfully reflect the life and drama of contemporary America" and which made "The Wave" and "The Plough That Broke the Plains...
While portraying a composite picture of life and conditions in the West of today, White took an optimistic viewpoint, but in closing, he sounded an ominous note regarding the "symptoms of injustice and unrest facing the Christian world today from the Caspian to Honolulu...
...Requicm has a significant position in Brahms' life since its popularity in Germany during his lifetime brought him his first wide-spread recognition. The text was compiled by Brahms himself of meditations from the Bible concerning death and the life to come. It is thoroughly Protestant in its attitude, and in spite of the melancholy and grimness of some passages and the profound nature of the work as a whole, the optimistic Protestant conception of a blessed eternity for the righteous is the essence of its spirit. The terror of the Day of Judgment is followed by the defeat...
Adet, Anor and Meimei (16, 13 and 8) are the daughters of Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living), that hard-working and engaging Chinese exponent of the leisurely life. Says doll-like Meimei, who is spoiled and collects stamps: "Father told Adet and Anor to write some diary. Soon they began to write and it became very good, so Father told them that maybe it can be published." A Chinese equivalent of the Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats...
...dying (its circulation climbed from 8,000 to 750,000 in twelve years), that the staff could not understand him. Reading the files of a rival publication, he exclaimed, "Not a Lincoln article! It is not a great magazine!" Thereupon he set Ida Tarbell to writing her enormously successful Life of Lincoln. Editor Lincoln Steffens was bewildered by the passion with which McClure ran staff meetings, spouted good and bad ideas-one of them, that Steffens could not edit a magazine in an office. To get away, Steffens traveled through the Middle West, wrote his sensational The Shame...