Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French juridical experts said this week they did not see how Grynszpan can escape the death penalty in France, except by commutation of sentence or pardon, unless he can be extradited to some other country. He is a Polish citizen and if extradited to that rather anti-Semite country would undoubtedly fare worse than in France. For President Albert Lebrun to pardon the assassin or commute a death sentence on Herschel Grynszpan to life imprisonment would be to provoke openly Adolf Hitler, who would also be provoked by any attempt to prove the assassin insane. Thus far all Grynszpan...
Anti-theory. Thesis of Christine Herter. in Defense of Art- is that much contemporary art is a product of theorizing rather than creative activity. She sees the lesser moderns as more or less buffaloed by intellectualizations which were slightly screwy in the first place, and proceeds to punch neat holes in the writings of eminent estheticians...
...first thought the idea of a physicist and an historian thrashing out a common subject over a conference table seems rather futile. Yet last year there was a highly successful discussion in Eliot House comparing the scientific method with that of the social sciences. Perhaps more feasible, however, is a joint discussion among kindred fields. Next week, for instance, the tutors and tutees in History, History-Literature and Music will approach the question of patronage of the arts, presumably from three different points of view...
...friends who persuaded him that he finally decided after four years of indecision to write this unbelievable record of his struggles with the bitterest elements, alone for five months at an advance base in the Antarctic. It is not so much from the man or from his writing but rather from what the man did that the book derives its greatness. Although the author's style and ideas are more sincere than brilliant, the immenseness of the story crowds its way through on every line, terrible and real...
...conductor appears as composer in two so-called "Nature Poems," orchestrated last year from a set of three written in 1919. This curiously un-vital music consists of a slight Pastoral and a more amusing Bacchanal, composed in a rather wayward French style, uncommonly exotic for an Englishman. The treatment of the orchestra is less brilliant than one might expect...