Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much of that. The thing that we find it hard to do, is to get the young American to stand on his own feet, we try to tell him, and so the result is that all he has to do is remember it. The proper relationship is that of master and apprentice, and the first duty of a teacher is to be a student, and then the teacher relationship comes when the young mind comes into contact with an older mind. It is very hard to get the young American to do it. You can not get a young American...
...Nettleton. By the contract, Johns becomes Nettleton's butler for one year, paying the sum of one hundred dollars for every act of unsubordination. The bill runs high. Johns is subjected to every indignity, including a meeting with his flancee in his houseman's garb, until he arouses his master's suspicion by being polite. The discovery that the contract is illegal is a cue for everybody to rejoice and join, in the finale...
...chivalric South Carolina worked up behind them do vast credit to their author. The dialogue, especially the ejaculations ("By cock and pye!", "Shut your clamtrap!", "A real, spang beauty!") are as racy and robustious as the points of honor are delicately sharpened, polished and thrust home. Author Minnigerode, master of informal biography (The Fabulous Forties, Lives and Times, Aaron Burr, Some American Ladies) has outdone himself in a piece of biographical fiction second to none this season...
...second day was the one of thrills. Then it was that some score of master canvases, mainly from the expensive 18th Century so favored by Maecenas Huntington, were sold. And chief among these was Sir Thomas Lawrence's "Pinkie," which brought the record auction price to date, $370,000. "Pinkie" is regarded as Lawrence's best work in his early debonair manner, that manner of captivating, almost too facile grace which made him adored of the great ladies of his day and keeps him popular since. "Pinkie" went-to Sir Joseph Duveen. "Pinkie," who was none other than...
Franz Baydn, the first great master of the quartets and the symphony, will be discussed by Professor Hill in the Music Building at 12 o'clock. Hayda, who was beloved by the Viennese for his dainty and melodious operas, new as known as the last of the 18th Century realists, a composer of severe decorum and sriet technique. His place in musical history by the excellence of his instrumental compositions into which he introduced the freshness and lyric quality of his native Croation folk-tunes. Baydn's natural idiom, for that matter, was a heightened and ennobled folk song...