Word: patricians
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Marian Anderson, 33, patrician Negro contralto, daughter of a onetime washerwoman, won the $10,000 Philadelphia Award (founded in 1921 by the late Edward W. Bok), given annually to the person who does most for the community. Contralto Anderson promised the money to "poor, unfortunate, very talented people...
Meticulous is the word for General Papagos. In private life a patrician to his long fingertips, a foppish lover of fine horses and a patron of racing, his lifelong study has been a huge collection of military books. John Metaxas' name went upon the defense system thrown up along the Bulgarian and Yugoslav borders, which were later extended hastily down the Al banian. But in General Papagos' head rests knowledge of every gully and goat track not only in the Greek mountains but far beyond. Like his soldiers, whom amazed correspondents found toiling with out lanterns at midnight...
...society. Most critics agree that art should be for the people; it should be removed from the stale, unhealthy atmosphere which in the past has bred pseudo-intellectuals and dilettantish connoisseurs. In short, if art is to justify its own existence, it must be something more than a patrician hobby...
Year ago, hailed by Boston's patrician Conductor Serge Koussevitzky, she made her Town Hall debut, unleashed a voice for which everyone predicted a future. Last week, long before she got to the inevitable Negro spirituals, Soprano Maynor showed that her future had begun. Her voice had rounded at the top, where it needed to; her knowledge of what she was about had deepened. Tenderly she sang Schumann's Du bist wie eine Blume, chicly she trilled a trifle of Bizet...
...draft a President." Now, unlike Cincinnatus, he was leaving his plow and going out to look for some Roman messengers. Even Roosevelt-hating Arthur Krock, New York Times columnist, gave the President's decision to campaign backhanded praise (he likened him not to Cincinnatus but to Coriolanus, the patrician who despised the plebeian voters but went through the form of asking for their votes, because he wanted the office of Consul), even admitted that the decision was "of great value to democracy." Candidate Willkie seemed delighted and excited. The general feeling was: Here he comes! Now, at last...