Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analysis of the matter, I commend you to The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti (Harcourt Brace, 1948) by G. Louis Joughin and Edmund M. Morgan. Morgan wrote the chapters dealing with this problem. I refer you particularly to pages 15-16, 67-68, 83-90, 98-106, 126-131, 135-137, chapters 5 and page 190. ARTHUR SCHLESINGER...
Last week's Denver convention showed that the modern square dance has long since stopped stomping, clogging and jigging (redeye is still optional), has become a forceful matter of sliding steps and intricate patterns. Dancers came from as far away as Germany and Great Britain, and from 46 U.S. states, most of them young married couples or spry middle-aged folk. Most impressive proof that square dancers are not square but hip: George ("Pop") Singer, who last week was energetically chassezing right and allemanding left...
...Paris painters -Chagall, Mondrian et al.-to Manhattan finally produced the understanding audience Carles longed for, but it was too late. In 1941 Carles suffered a stroke, and though he lingered on until his death at 70 in 1952, he never painted again. Said his daughter, Painter Mercedes Matter, "His entire work was characterized by this impetuous moving on toward what he perceived further ahead. From one point of view he could be considered a failure, since there were few places in which he stopped sufficiently to consolidate his position and produce successfully...
...Announce that you compose away from the piano. It doesn't matter whether you do or not, but you must always say so ('I visualized the entire oratorio in a flash while washing the dishes')." ¶ "When you get there, kick over the ladder. You will undoubtedly teach, and you must remember at all times that every student represents a potential rival. A little bad advice, discreetly given, has halted or slowed many a career." ¶ "Have money. Birth, marriage or fraud are the three most suitable sources...
Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), strongly seconded by Scriptwriter James R. Webb and Producer Sy Bartlett, seems determined to proclaim the dignity of the individual at the moment, in the heat of battle, when it seems to matter least. Like Lincoln at Gettysburg, Milestone declines to insult the dead with his approval. Like Analyst Marshall, he is satisfied to report simply and brutally: "The American character continues to meet the test of great events...