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Word: matters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I feel impelled to bring to notice through your columns the actions of a certain set of Sophomores in Memorial Hall. In the matter of loud talking, boisterous behavior, and general vulgarity of demeanor they are unexcelled. If they would indulge in their monkeyshines when there are no strangers about; but they seem to take particular delight in throwing bread, hammering on the table and cursing the waiter when there are spectators in the gallery. Just at this time the public is subjecting Harvard students to a good deal of unfavorable criticism, and it behooves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT and RUMOUR | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...eliminate the non-essentials, the author connects all the high spots of recent years in a coherent pattern, at the same time passing judgment on many fallacies and legends that have grown up. The result is that the politics of the world seem to be a relatively simple matter, perhaps too simple...

Author: By J. G. P. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

...especially grim grinding of axes. Insofar as the show is a vehicle for any serious message from Labor, the latter declares its youthfulness and strength and its determination to get what's coming to it, but it is so free from vindictiveness and revolutionary urging that the spectators, no matter what their social complexion, applaud spontaneously without any secret twinges of alarm...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

...were the first examples of systematic "atonality." To Composer Schönberg the laws by which notes follow and precede each other had become arbitrary suppositions. By his new theory of atonality, all notes were created free & equal; the sequence in which they followed each other was merely a matter of taste. An atonal melody was governed, not by the rules of musical syntax, but by the rules of eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Composer Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps became the most imitated composition of its period; Composer Schönberg's declaration of independence influenced nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reaction | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...lawyer: "Wasn't the matter on your conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sorely Mistaken | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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