Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Political life is no longer a struggle of parties over programs in national interests. With rare exceptions it is a melee of individuals grouped for profit around the so-called leaders, actuated solely by the fear of ignorant followers...
Most is expected of Polish Artur Rodzinski who will have command of the season's last eight weeks. Conductor Rodzinski has made rare progress since he arrived in the U. S. eleven years ago to serve an apprenticeship as assistant to Philadelphia's Leopold Stokowski. From Philadelphia Rodzinski went to Los Angeles, created new interest in the orchestra there. For the past three years he has been in Cleveland where he has become increasingly dynamic. Besides building up the audiences for the regular symphony series he has made opera, a part of his schedule. For Cleveland...
...status with all resulting rights under the retirement laws of the United States. An incorruptible organization of career men, having no political axes to grind, will be built up, and the present vicious system of political appointments to federal administrative jobs will be slowly abolished. It will be a rare treat for the United States to have no political turnover in federal jobs every four years. Prominent educators in this country have often publicly lamented the need for a comprehensive civil service, similar to that of England. This bill, if passed, will set up an institution that will rival...
When the curtain rises in Sanders Theatre on April 15, those in the audience will soon realize it is the rare wine, the sparkling champague of other days that is being tasted, rather than the heavy bodied liqueurs which are usually expected from classicists. Indeed, the presentation for wide-spread attention of the lighter, the more pleasant, the human side of those who strolled by the Tiber is a laudable endeavor, "quo quiddem opere quid potest esse pracclarius...
...help the company over its financial crisis. To many a Bori admirer it seemed incredible that she could be close to 50. Her voice is still fresh. She has been careful of her figure. On the stage she has always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm. The patrician quality which has distinguished all her operatic heroines is Bori's own. She was born a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Spain it was considered a disgrace for an aristocrat to adopt a stage career. Bori changed her name, made her debut...