Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pursuits for their own sake. "Once a community automatically begins to consider disinterested curiosity as being something idle, time-wasting, self-indulgent and, therefore, immoral, it is in a very bad way . . . Few great works of art, or great discoveries of science, have ever been made by men with one eye on the social consequences of their activity...
...corporation; he would still face charges of the Department of Welfare for having accepted too much relief. But there was no injunction to stop his hundreds of students from using their titles and degrees for whatever purposes suited them-the man who paid $1.25 to become a "missionary," the one who paid $65 for a "Bachelor of Theosophy" degree, or the one who gave $100 to call himself "Doctor of Divinity...
...York was not the only state with a law designed to bar subversive teachers from public schools, but it had one of the newest and toughest. The Feinberg law (TIME, April 11) empowered schools to dismiss teachers because of membership in any organization that the state Board of Regents had listed as "subversive." When the legislature passed the act last spring, cries of alarm rose from civic groups and teachers' unions as well as from the Communists who were its main target...
...Real American." Now that he has a permanent home in which he can polish old works and plan new ones, Russian-born Choreographer Balanchine, a U.S. citizen for ten years, hopes he is on the road to a permanent American ballet company, something like Britain's national ballet, the Sadler's Wells (TIME, Oct. 17). One step in the direction of making it a "real American" ballet was the addition to the staff this season of bright, witty, U.S.-born Choreographer Jerome (Fancy Free) Robbins...
...himself had been badly dealt with by publishers, stage directors and actors. His father, first horn at the Munich court opera, had to contribute 1,000 marks ($238) to the printing cost of the F-Minor Symphony. "My fee for Don Juan," Strauss recorded, "was 800 marks ... for Eulenspiegel [one of his most frequently played works], 1,000 marks...