Word: pleasants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose"; (of James Joyce) "an obscur whom everyone can understand." Picasso's critics do not like the way he pretends that nothing he says can have any really damaging effect. They point to this as one more symptom of spoiled-childishness which accepts the pleasant aura of fame without acknowledging the responsibility it entails...
...most U. S. ears, Chinese music is at best incomprehensible, at worst a painful noise. To Chinese ears and minds it is not only pleasant but instructive. Philosopher K'ung Fu-tze (Confucius), himself a ch'in (zither) player of no mean order, considered music one of the six fundamental factors in education. In China's great days, music was a required subject for budding administrators. Hundreds of learned books were written about...
...would stretch from Moscow to Madrid. To compensate for its unwieldy shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where most of its people live, supplies more wheat, cattle and wine than Chile can use; and its rain-sodden southern provinces are rich in lumber, much of them still virgin territory and inhabited by half-savage Indians...
...annual report, made public yesterday, Holmes stressed the necessity of a scientific knowledge of the various educational problems to a teacher. He attacked the numerous false standards employed by secondary school authorities in the selection of a teacher, declaring that a pleasant "beside manner" alone did not qualify a man to teach...
Grant, who yesterday completed his term as Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, blushingly denied that his proposal was prompted by any "delusion of grandeur" in connection with his famous sister-in-law to be. However, he added that Katherine's congratulatory kiss was "very pleasant...