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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father O'Leary's most sensational speaker was Harvard's White Russian Sociologist Pitirim A. Sorokin, who declared that no aspect of modern culture had increased man's happiness. Stormed he: "The 20th Century has been the bloodiest. . . . Our contemporary art mortalizes the immortals . . . is sexually crazy and often sadistic. The We Kiss and Angels Sing, Heaven Can Wait and This Is Paradise of the crooners are examples. . . . Contemporary art . . . is centred around the police morgue, a criminal's hideout or the sex organs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Presidents' Week: Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Ohio State, 1,000 alumni this week gathered for a similar series of lectures on the general theme: What Does the Future Hold? Some subjects: Propaganda Analysis (by Alumnus Clyde R. Miller, 11), Restoration Saints and Modern Sinners, Tomorrow's Newspaper, Movies of a Cow's Stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Sober Reunions | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Tschaikowsky: Serenade in C Major (B. B. C. Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; Victor: 6 sides). First modern recording, superb in its string sonorities, of a popular standby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Many a Wall Street broker visualizes himself as a modern Sisyphus in a special kind of New Deal Hell: endlessly rolling a Business boulder up a WPA hill built too steep by Federal spending, sown too thickly with SEC hazards, watered so heavily with Federal supervision that the boulder continually slips out of his hands and rolls back into Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bawl Street | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...over last year while the combined backlog of all other Baldwin divisions rose only half as fast. The Navy allows Midvale up to 10% profit on contracts after figuring a generous 10-20% depreciation. This assures not only good profit but is enabling Midvale to keep its capacities modern, efficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Luck on Tidewater | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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