Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashionable as it was, and even No. 1 Atonalist Schönberg, who is now in Hollywood (but not of it), has begun to put slightly more melodious whistles in his work. Not so, his disciple Krenek. Last spring Composer Krenek, in an article in Musical America, deplored the reaction of his contemporaries, exhorted them to turn back to the stern old days of esthetic revolution, of completely tuneless music...
...Automobile Showtime, Weaver puts on a special drive to gauge the public's reaction to the new models. Last week, for example, many a New Yorker got free tickets to the Manhattan show on the condition that he fill in a style ballot. Weaver will also muster some of his motor enthusiasts for a personally conducted tour of the show. This week, too. Weaver's biggest customer research opus makes its debut-a slick, 80-page Motorist's Handbook and Buyer's Guide to be distributed to 5,000,000 customers to tell them what they...
...repudiation of the New Deal is questionable. In many cases, including the important Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Massachusetts elections, local issues or personalities greatly obscured the New Deal question, and frequently the latter was not put at all. Furthermore, the Democratic losses are partly the normal mid term reaction, considerably accentuated by the fact that Americans do not like depressions. Finally, the repudiation is not generally that of liberal New Deal principles, which were endorsed since many Republican standard-bearers were fully committed to such untraditional doctrines as social security, collective bargaining, farm and unemployed relief. What has been repudiated...
When the band led off with "Eliot" in its spelling of the Houses, everyone thought of politics, and this influenced the reaction. A few die-hards even expected Saltonstall after "Leverett...
...choice presented to Harvard voters by the Massachusetts gubernatorial race should be obvious from the fact that Mr. Curley is a veteran political buccaneer and Mr. Saltonstall is not. Election of the latter will mean not so much a victory for reaction as one for clean government, and in view of the Tammany, Hague, and other primitive organizations it is worth arguing that clean rule must precede progressive rule. In this campaign, victory in which lies with the independent voters, integrity--not progressivism--is the issue. Although perhaps not enough independent of State Street, Mr. Saltonstall is honest and sound...