Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musicology must go a great deal of the credit for this revival of works of undeservedly neglected composers. To it also must go much credit for the rebirth of great bodies of musical literature--the medieval music of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means...
...would seem incredible or unique to the outsider, for it is a huge pep meeting without any reason for being. The boys just get together--in the words of the founder back in 1895--to experience the "rebirth of the College spirit," or to "pledge their loyalty to the College." They listen to a few speeches, and applaud telegrams which have been sent by Dartmouth clubs which meet simultaneously all over the nation in a sort of mystical unity; they cheer a bit and sing "Dartmouth Undying" or "Men of Dartmouth"; then perhaps they go straight to bed like...
Hungary has enjoyed an artistic and musical rebirth resulting from the wave of nationalism which swept her after the war, Dr. laszle Telkes, director of the Hungarian Reference Library, New York, said yesterday in a lecture on "A Thousand Years of Hungarian Culture" in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Genius. After 1915, Wright's rebirth in architecture took the form of creative audacity on a grand scale. Commissioned in 1916 to build the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, he produced one of the marvels of modern construction. A vast, low building on a symmetrical plan, it was Wright's first ambitious use of the cantilever principle, which allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship...
...suggest to you that you prepare yourself for a newer and finer stewardship-the industrial rebirth of the nation. You ask when? I don't know. But the task is mighty and the penalty for failure severe, so let us try to be patient...