Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high point in the current craze among dance bands to make swing versions of popular classics is reached in the adaptation by Larry Clinton of Debussy's "Reverie." So perfect a fusion of so-called classic and modern elements has been made in this piece that as far as the fad is concerned, here is an apologia pro sua vita. The swing version of "Reverie" is superior to the original, because Debussy's composition was not in his best vein. "Reverie" dates from 1890, the year marking the transition from the composer's immature to more mature works. That year...
...proceeds, by means of a long cutback, to tell the story of his life, ending at the moment when the picture begins. John Abbott (Edward Ellis), prototype of thousands of other country doctors in thousands of other Westports, was a humble, hard working general practitioner, too dour to be popular with his patients, too generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from Katharine Haviland Taylor's story The Failure, related with notable economy, his brief, triumphant biography provides Edward Ellis with a character actor's dream of a fat part. In it he gives a beautifully sustained...
...Harvard Eliot-for-Congress Committee, may we congratulate you on yesterday's excellent editorial, in which you urge that Tom Eliot '28 be sent to the National Congress from this district. In taking this position, the Crimson takes the stand not only of progressivism, but of truly enlightened popular conservatism. . . . William N. Chambers '39, James S. Lanigan...
...parties have jointly condemned. Eliot has worked to solve these problems in a way that has won the support of Republicans as well as Democrats. Luce, blinded to the needs of his own district, allowed his unreasoning hostility to the administration to spill over in opposition to such a popular measure as the Wages and Hours Bill. Eliot will further the interests of his constituents instead of opposing them...
...1920s, domestic court judges and psychiatrists were popular U. S. oracles on marriage. Their pronouncements usually were guesses, often contradicted each other. While some commentators, for example, said adultery was the chief cause of divorce, others contended it was poverty, low mentality, drink, nagging. Gynecologist T. H. Van de Velde spurned such simple explanations, went so far as to assert that mating should be between "a cyclothymic pycnic woman and a schizothymeleptosome...