Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look first at the pictures in any book whose cover says that it was "illustrated by Arthur Rackham." In fact, that one phrase makes a great many people want certain books which they might otherwise never think to buy. This applies particularly to grown people, who have read Peter Pan and The Water Babies and Aesop's Fables and Hansel and Gretel years ago. A great many parents now buy Rackhamized editions of these books and pretend that they are doing it to please their children. It comes to that in the end, but actually the parents are getting...
...trivial vehicle, reinforced by capable support from the actors; there is no high level of credibility, and the lines are not sparkling. Accept it as a play of situation, and recognize that no mental effort is necessary. Take your Princeton friends, they'll like it, even if they pan the Southern accent of the cast...
Personal Triumph. Explanation lies in the fact that the potent Christian Socialist-Party controls sufficient votes to control the Chancellory, but is divided within itself on the question of "states rights" for the Austrian provinces v. pan-Austrian "centralism." Dr. Ramek, leader of the former group, waxed potent two years ago, and usurped the Chancellory (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) from Mgr. Seipel, Chancellor then as now, when the latter was under fire (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924) for not raising the salaries of Austria's state-employed railway workers...
...there by the heavy hand of Mynherr Mengelberg, there were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance in manuscript. Pan and the Priest it was called-Pan, the Pagan spirit of unfettered emotions, crossing swords in an endless battle with the Priest, meditative ascetic. Critics found it "striding with energy and lifted head, large- molded, full-throated," "excellent music for a feature film, to depict the struggle of the upper...
...either wing to frame the pale, curled head of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Up went his hand and beauty floated, spread itself over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer William Schroeder, difficult, cleverly constructed, tedious; Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice," brilliant, biting; Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony," great feat of the afternoon, magnificently played...