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Word: nonprofit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ballet Society, a new nonprofit company which had gone underground to experiment (for members only, who paid from $15 to $50 a season to look on), put on three premieres. The Minotaur was a well-conceived but not always well-executed marriage of classical myth, classical and modern dance (by John Taras), modern music (by Elliott Carter) and modern art (by Joan Junyer). In Zodiac, weak music and dance were overpowered by blinding costumes and sets. Highland Fling, in which sylphs run in & out of an interminable Scottish wedding to faintly Scottish and vaguely dissonant music, was an unhappy case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trial Leaps | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...recommend that nonprofit institutions help supply the variety, quantity, and quality of press service required by the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE THIRTEEN STEPS | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Civilization will have to be sold on the aspirin level [by] Hucksters of Civilization, Inc., a nonprofit, mass moral educational organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Vanishing Family | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Manhattan, a new nonprofit company called Ballet Society set out to de-emphasize ballet and take the high pressure out of it. It had the well-heeled help of Lincoln Kirstein, who in the past 14 years has organized or helped support five attempts to "de-Russianize" U.S. ballet. And as its artistic director Ballet Society had Russian-born George Balanchine, the best choreographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet Underground | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Navy job was the latest model of objective ("pick-the-right-answer") aptitude test, the current fashion in exam-making. The no-man test factory, a nonprofit outfit called the College Entrance Examination Board, tailors special exams to order for the State Department, the Pepsi-Cola Co., many another customer. But mostly it works out mechanical ways of measuring who should and who shouldn't be admitted to 55 member colleges, mainly in the East (among them Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Vassar, Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grading Machines | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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