Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather with respect to those educational functions which, because most intimately linked with world change, stand most in need of continual revision, that I believe our colleges, Harvard among them, have been content with less than real accomplishment. For every potential specialist in art, undergraduate classes include many young men and women who are not there because they wish to lay the basis for a professional career in art, nor even purely for the sake of the intellectual discipline involved, but rather as persons whose taste in art, though they will never be artists themselves, will be of consequence...
...hard upon the Black Shirts, they may be rather Swastika, But even Hitler had a mother and even Mussolini...
...Orchestra of the New Friends of Music, Fritz Stiedry conducting; Victor: One vol., 9 sides). Of the five unpublished Haydn symphonies that Musicologist Alfred Einstein dug out of European libraries last summer (TIME, March 6), two are here recorded for the first time. Both are good-vintage Haydn, both rather coarsely and pedantically performed...
...appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start with roles like Musetta, Micaela, is confident she can make her $1,000 prize money go a long way because "I am rather a frugal fool...
...success of the petition has decided the backers to appeal directly to the University rather than to the departments in order that immediate action can be taken...