Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Morgan: "During a long period I have repeatedly but unsuccessfully endeavored to secure the President's adequate consideration of grave conditions within the TVA. ... I am of the opinion that this meeting is not, and in the nature of the case cannot be, an effective or useful fact finding occasion." Pressed, the chairman snapped: "I am an observer and not a participant in this alleged process of fact finding...
Christopher Wood belonged to a period in the arts which has been thoroughly berated for its frivolity but for which many an artist nevertheless feels a nostalgic respect. In the U. S. it was characterized by the brave inebrieties of Greenwich Village; in England by the no-less-eccentric brilliance of writers like Ronald Firbank, who always carried a few lumps of coal in his suitcase to remind him where his family got its money. Like Firbank, "Kit" Wood was a well-to-do, social young man who became a legend, but the legend is of a singularly pure artist...
Bravura was the word for Giovanni Boldini, whose society paintings in the period from 1890 to 1910 were the quintessence which John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Howard Chandler Christy and Charles Dana Gibson diluted, in ascending order of popularity, descending order of excellence. Last week at the Newhouse Galleries Manhattanites were surprised and seduced by the 68 brilliant, relatively intimate paintings, crayons and drawings which the 89-year-old Italian left in his Paris studio at his death in 1931. In his smaller works (minimum price: $400 for a sketch) Boldini showed a direct mastery of the Proustian atmospheres...
...Power Biggs, of Harvard's Germanic Museum, does not have to sigh for the good old days. In the museum's peaceful, arched Romanesque Hall is an organ, the only one of its kind in the U. S., built to the precise specifications of Bach's period.* Last week Organist Biggs, with his facsimile organ, started the second half of a cycle of concerts which will include all of Bach's organ works, played exactly as they might have sounded to Composer Bach himself...
...STORY or RECONSTRUCTION-Robert Selph Henry - Bobbs-Merrill ($5). Monumental, 633-page sequel to Author Henry's monumental Story of the Confederacy, restoring life and order to the drabbest, most fiercely confused period in U. S. history...