Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Manhattan, a dubious audience strained expectant ears, saw musical instruments, were invited to hear musical tones, which most of them had never dreamed existed. On the stage of Carnegie Hall, Leopold Stokowski, able conductor, master of the unexpected, stood in command before the Philadelphia Orchestra, presented Julian Carillo's† "System of the 13th Sound." Concertgoers, bred in a world where the finest division of music is the halftone, in which the chromatic scale has a total of twelve tones to the octave, heard, or tried to hear, quarter-tones, eighth-tones, three-quarter-tones...
There is a true scholarship, but there is also a pseudo-scholarship. There is the scholarship that is an essential part of the cultivated man who has made himself the intellectual master of some subject of broad, human interest. There is the other kind of scholarship that satisfies itself with the minutiae of scientific research in literature or history, that dissects some unimportant subdivision of a subject, and that demands of its students anything but a human interest in it, in the field of true scholarship, publication is a gift to the civilization of the time. In the other field...
...Fogg Museum has wisely counted these as part of its teaching equipment and made its greatest effort to bring to Cambridge the work of men whose paintings could not be studied to advantage elsewhere. This principle has been extended to include the various periods in the work of great master...
...capitalistic Washington, State Department officials stuck to the story of the ogre that is Bolshevism, refused passports to Socialists, rebuked far-away Mexico for communistic tendencies. In Chicago their archenemy, Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg, master-Bolshevik, eyes hope-haunted with a thousand failures, lay still, died. Throughout the U. S. tiny bands of comrades mourned. "He was," said the Daily Worker, communist newssheet, "the sole outstanding figure who carried over into our party the very best traditions of the pre-War socialist movement.... We expected to write soon that he had gone to prison because of his loyalty...
...traditionally quiet atmosphere of international chess had been disturbed. One M. L. Lederer had accused Dr. Emanuel Lasker, German chess master, onetime world's champion, of employing unfair tactics for the purpose of impairing his opponents' powers to cerebrate. Specifically, Mr. Lederer had charged Dr. Lasker with 1) smoking cigars of semi-lethal composition during his matches, 2) exhaling fumes of same at strategic intervals and with unnecessary force,* 3) shouting superfluous orders at attendants, 4) being a nuisance intentionally...