Word: racially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Folk songs should not be an end in themselves, but a tool in the hands of a Vaughan Williams or a Chopin for the highest realization of their possibilities. Nationalism in music is for him a fallacy, since music is so universal as to be above political cr even racial boundaries. And Wagner's supreme failure was in his attempt to make music an auxiliary to drama, or to tie the abstract to the particular. Although the essays are slight in scope, their influence has already been great...
...Church, said its Committee on Moral & Social Welfare, should address itself to the following conditions: "racketeering, gambling, exploitations, bribery, profanity, dissipation, diseases, suicide, sex laxity, lawlessness; organized agencies within society which have in large sections been perverted; infidelity between husbands and wives, disloyalty between parents and children, undisciplined temperaments; racial prejudices: jealousies, greed, grudges between nationalities; the wrong attitude of class toward class in society; great wealth and luxury and abject poverty within sight of each other, but separated by an impassable gulf; leisure because of no need to work and enforced idleness because of no opportunity to work...
Today Haitians are even more bitter against American domination than they were when the Navy shipped their gold reserve to New York in 1915. One reason for this is the racial make-up of the country. The French made the original mistake in bringing prisoners of war to work the land. These were no black slaves, but the sons of native kings and warriors who were accustomed to hold slaves themselves. France discovered this when the ragged troops of Toussaint L'Ouverture drove the army of the great Napoleon to the sea, and later repulsed the forces that England sent...
...primary, onetime Mayor Thompson had employed "stooges" in rabbinical dress to ridicule Judge Homer's racial origin...
...boarding schools for boys, including certain very ancient foundations, there is no such advantage on either side, as neither master nor doctor has any psychological insight beyond that which may come to him by the light of nature. The situation is one which entirely satisfies the complacency of our racial traditionalism. It is not one, however, that can be regarded as satisfactory in the light of modern knowledge and of educational ideals outside these islands...