Word: mass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program that has been arranged is a varied one. Hindemith's "Martins Lied" will open the concert, to be followed by "Kyrie Eleison" from Bach's Mass in B Minor. The joint singing will be closed with Beethoven's "Eulogy." After this, the Radcliffe Choral Society will end the concert with Allegri's "Miserere...
...bearded William Morris, who did some of the first thinking about industry's impact on art, was fond of pointing out that the word "manufacturer" had lost all if its original meaning (hand-maker). Worcester, Mass, is one of the New England towns whose 19th-Century mills and streets bear witness to the loss. But Worcester has a fine Art Museum, and here last week New England scholars and art lovers gathered to ponder the art of mother great manufacturing region when art and manufacturing were...
...exactly half a century, and more than any other career in history it proved the power and privileges of a free press. No other press lord ever wielded his power with less sense of responsibility; no other press ever matched the Hearst press for flamboyance, perversity and incitement of mass hysteria. Hearst never believed in anything much, not even Hearst, and his appeal was not to men's minds but to those infantile emotions which he never conquered in himself: arrogance, hatred, frustration, fear. But while Hearst dragged his readers vicariously through every depravity from jingoism to sex murder...
...Cambridge, Mass., 36-year-old George Bosworth Burch, father of two, who is now completing his 18th year at Harvard, declared that he has no particular goal in view, plans to continue his philosophical studies indefinitely...
Like many another genius, Edgar Wallace did not reach maturity until he was past 40. His full flowering came after the War. A new publisher saw Wallace's mass-production possibilities. He divorced his mousy wife, married his shrewd secretary, 23 years his junior, shaved his Old Bill mustache, hired a speed typist, slept a maximum five or six hours a night, primed himself for writing on gallons of tea, handfuls of cigarettes. By 1928 he was making $250,000 a year, owned a string of race horses (they lost as consistently as he did at poker), a fleet...