Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler's drastic exchange curbs have blocked in the Fatherland this huge total of pious contributions by German Catholics during the recent Holy Year for the Papal fund known as "Peter's Pence." If the Catholic Church should be treated in Germany as many Nazi Pagans would like to treat it, these 20,000,000 marks may not only be blocked but permanently lost to Christendom...
...Boston must continue to be an intellectual waste, barren of the best dramatic productions of recent years. "The Children's Hour", which was seriously considered for last year's Pulitzer Prize and which, in the opinion of many, remains the ranking drama of last year, only needed one further accolade--a Boston ban. We can only hope that some reburb, whose authorities do not regard intellectual freedom as a curse, will receive the step-child graciously, as it deserves. Meanwhile Boston can find its pleasure elsewhere, in flourishing burlesque houses, in cheap movies, in dismal "dives...
Burroughs has photographed many of the leading American works about which there has been doubt as to who the painter was. In some cases, however, he has been unable to convince the experts that he was right, for the X-Ray is a fairly recent development, and there is tendency to ignore his findings...
...last week that he had his telephone disconnected. He went into Helsinki for his birthday concert attended by 8,000 adoring Finns and the Premiers of Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. His surprise of the week came when he heard the result of the New York Philharmonic's recent radio poll. Sibelius attracted little attention when he visited the U. S. in 1914. Today U. S. music-lovers have voted him the most popular of all living composers...
...books to be reviewed and commented upon are 20 in number, varying from Plato's "Dialogues" and Spinoza's "Ethics" to contemporary and recent works such as Royce's "Philosophy of Loyalty" and Lippmann's, "Preface to Morals." One of these is to be chosen by t he members of the course...