Word: productions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, as David Popper has pointed out, Mann has based his essay entirely on a theory whose truth is yet to be proved. The events he ascribes to Machiavellian tactics may be in truth the product of weakness and indecision. "Human drift and stupidity may attain heights beyond imagination, which observers are constantly tempted to ascribe to some planned motives." Nevertheless, the book is worth while for those who are interested in a variety of different interpretations of the historical role of the Munich settlement...
...Congress to have some relation to agricultural pursuits or at least to activities of a type usually carried on in rural communities. . . . Subsidizing the manufacture of silk hosiery does not appear to come within such contemplated fields . .. [besides] giving rise to increased competition with cotton, the chief agricultural product of the South." With no high hopes, FSA planned to present "new evidence" to persuade Mr. Elliott that its silk-stocking project is legal...
Most of the music that is played in concert halls comes from the broad musical meadows of Central Europe. But most of the tunes that set people dancing or whistling come from their own musical back yards. For want of a home-grown product even half as good, non-Germanic countries have had to import a large part of their concert music. But during the past 75 years composers in other countries have struggled to raise their own distinct national types of concert music, to produce symphonies, quartets, operas that are 100% Russian, Hungarian or American (jazz). Some have been...
...Balkan standards Prince Paul, product of the free atmosphere of English university life, promised to be a more liberal ruler than Alexander. Once he mourned: "If I only had more time!" There was ever present the danger that a neighboring country might start to subsidize a Croatian autonomy movement, that the Germans or Hungarians might really get restless. Carefully Prince Paul at first tried to pull the diverse peoples of Yugoslavia into a working unit, scrupulously conferring with Croatian leaders. But within a year all thought of appeasement had gone by the board. Typical Yugoslav election is now cynically described...
...Disney Silly Symphonies are the product of a big corporation employing 75 animators, 150 copyists and a gang of gagmen, musicians and technicians. They are first drawn on large celluloid sheets, superimposed and then photographed one by one. Len Lye, however, paints or stencils his designs by hand, slowly and methodically, on the thin ribbon of film stock itself. Some of the names Len Lye gave to musical effects: "a splurged woomph" (drum beat), "a zing-a-zing-a-zing-a-zing" (violin), "flutter" (clarinet...