Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died (aged 91) in 1937. Now, as in no other period of U. S. history, there is a dearth of Elders. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's job disqualifies him. Ex-President Herbert Hoover remains too closely identified with his wing of the Republican Party to seem Olympian when he sounds off. His Cabinet as a whole are out of public sight and mind...
...years few names have acquired such a golden resonance in the world of art as that of Bernard Berenson, greatest living connoisseur of Italian art. Dealers like the millionaire Duveens have hung like schoolboys on his opinion, and among critics of art Berenson's place is securely Olympian. But if most people think of him at all, they think of him as vaguely European and probably dead, whereas actually he has just produced something...
...benevolent aristocracy may be the ideal form of government, provided the Olympian Elect can be found to direct it. But undoubtedly a situation where the older, more settled members of any department have a deciding voice in advancement and tenure provides a huge hole through which abuses may pour in. There is a possibility that the conscious or unconscious prejudices of the older members will determine their decisions, or that points of view not in agreement with theirs will be excluded so that the department becomes narrow and biased. The current Feild controversy is a case in point. There...
...Oyly Carters' present visit. Several Broadway critics accused Martyn Green, the company's chief comic, of prancing, capering, grimacing too much as Ko-Ko in The Mikado-"putting the horseplay before the D'Oyly Carte," as Critic John Anderson referred to it. To this the Olympian D'Oyly Carters made no answer, merely continued to play, night after night, to standees...
...Olympian disdain for the public, Orlando Weber was quite willing to be delisted, but opposition grew in the ranks of stockholders and Allied gave in after two years. At the same directors' meeting where the $400,000,000 company gave in completely by agreeing to register on the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman Weber turned over his office to almost equally taciturn Henry Atherton. Since then Allied has revealed what proportion of its income comes from the chemicals it makes, what from investments, has gradually expanded its annual statements. Last week it finally revealed most of the miscellaneous securities...