Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition suggests a program that 'aims to bring about closer adherence to the present Student Council recommendation on the House selection methods and will set up definite standards whereby energetic men can all be assured of admission to the Houses on the basis of meritable work...
...Vivaldi, for instance, though primarily a violin virtuoso whose love of flash and dexterity often carried him to vacuous extremes, had command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this less familiar music of the age of Bach and Handel...
...pace of U. S. economic activity stepped up, the way was paved for the still greater output during the 1920s. In 1926 production was 10% greater than the 1917 peak. U. S. economy has grown in size. Example: Wartime steel capacity was overstrained to produce 40,000,000 tons; present capacity is over 70,000,000 tons. In the grown-up economy, equivalent doses of new money do not produce equivalent effects. In 1938 some $18,500,000,000 of new money was put to work, but only 26,000,000 tons of steel were produced, and there were about...
Declaring that "It is now apparent that opponents of the present relief policy of the government propose to center their attack on the Federal Arts Projects," it claims, "The Federal Arts Projects are the clearest and most characteristic expression of the policy of the government to give relief to the unemployed by giving work suitable to their experience and training...
...Present German art tendencies are strong and realistic. External aspects are emphasized in a way which does not allow for an after-reverberation in the mind of the audience of the theme which the artist is trying to present. The artist, in attempting to express himself in such a fashion that his idea will be made clear to the onlooker, throws his whole subjective self into his creation with the result that not a great deal is left to the imagination of the spectator. Most great artists have left a slight gap between themselves and those who are receiving their...