Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Der Angriff, personal organ of ecstatic Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Josef Goebbels. last week found a new villain to hiss at-the stolid, pedantic Press of Switzerland. ''The Swiss newspapers," roared Der Angriff, "are read only by those in Germany who have already emigrated in spirit...
Not since the Bolsheviks took over Russia has there been such a musical orgy as that which began in Leningrad last week, promised to run for ten full days. Soviet Russia was having its first big music festival. Blustery Red music was played in the Tsar's old palace...
Last week Mrs. MacDonald retired from the music business. She had been unable to pay Virginia Burbank, a Los Angeles contralto, railroad fare and a small fee. Like Thomas, Contralto Burbank refused to sing. Said she: "I felt that I owed it to the dignity of the music profession."
Criticism has forms that run the gamut from a brickbat to a disapproving silence, but criticism as a profession is not crowded with leaders. Thoughtful U. S. citizens, dazed by the soundless flicker of statistics, deafened by the screams of professional iconoclasts, lulled by the thin whisper of unco-highbrows, should be grateful for the reassuringly human voice of Critic Van Wyck Brooks. He is known by the minority that reads him as a sound, tonic, unacademic observer whose interest in the tall trees of literary criticism has not blinded him to the more important U. S. forest. These Three...
The duties of the office to which he was appointed eight years ago, have not permitted Dean Keyes to devote much of his time to study and he hopes, when relieved of a full-time job to be able to complete his work for a doctor's degree. Although he...