Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High point of the performance is a song, "Across the River," composed by the playwright and sung by David (Walter Richardson). If you liked The Green Pastures, 01' Man Satan should remind you in spots of that more profound, more seriously comic predecessor...
Confronted with a less profound problem than the claims to truth of science or of art, Herman Melville once exclaimed: "By the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the Hebrew story of Jonah; and vice versa . . . If I claim the demigod, then, why not the prophet...
...admirer of the U. S., Author Priestley contrives to have his hero bored by a Cincinnati Babbitt who remarks of his library of tourist literature: "I guess I've got the most complete one in the States." More profound and more profitable than Author Priestley's knowledge of U. S. idiom is his knowledge of how to give unreal characters an air of reality by letting them sit down in out-of-the-way places to chat about everyday matters like sex, communism, the cinema, debauchery, patriotism, honesty. The ramblings of Author Priestley's invention are limitless. They make Faraway...
...more accurately determined between now and November. The real strength of the Sabin organization lies in the desire of the smalltown matron to ally herself, no matter how remotely, with a congregation of bona fide, rotogravure society figures in a cause about which she may or may not have profound convictions. The weakness of the W. O. N. P. R. lies in the populous class of rural women who also vote and who bitterly suspect, envy and hate the ground that ladies like Mrs. Sabin walk on. Crusaders. A companion organization to Mrs. Sabin's is the Crusaders, which...
Alfred Cortot, in the other volume, discusses the work for piano of Debussy, Franck, Faure, Chaubrier, and Paul Dukas. A general survey of the composer's style is followed by detailed comment on individual works. Mr. Cortot has a profound knowledge of his instrument and its literature, and the listener will find in his book admirable matter on almost any work he wishes to look for, It should be a valuable addition to any musical library...