Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Frida Leider decided to remain in Europe this winter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company engaged a strapping Austrian soprano named Anny Konetzni to sing heroic Wagnerian roles. Anny Konetzni had been a swimming champion and a contralto, before she went up in the scale. For her debut performance last week she donned the feathers and breastplate of the Walkure Brünnhilde, proved herself a routine interpreter with a big pleasant voice which she had trouble controlling...
Doubtless a few students could be paired successfully, but these would be the exception to prove the rule. For it is questionable how much a man learns in a book that will remain with him a decade or so after graduation. But what any man remembers is those with whom he has come into close contact. The closer the contact, the longer, and more vivid, the remembrance. The Tutorial System fills two functions: academic and, for want of a better name, social. To jeopardize the latter, which in the long run is the more valuable, would be a false...
...should be borne in mind, that despite the success of the League in at least contributing towards a moderately peaceful Saar plebiscite, and in the peaceful settlement of the threatened war between Jugoslavia and Hungary--despite these encouraging signs, it would be unwise to forget that the thorniest problems remain unsolved...
...next few months are of immense significance to Europe's peace of mind. Will France remain on the gold standard? Will she avoid the perils of Fascism? Will Germans be satisfied with "Ersatz" food and clothing? Will Hitler, in the event of popular endorsement in the Saar, consent to Austria's independence? These questions are but the most pressing at the moment. In their settlement lies the future of modern Europe...
...pretty bad. We're going to stop being lunatics after all. The moon is to be evicted from her last retreat, the Paschal Date. For my part, if they standardize Easter for the sake of Trade (as Christmas is lost in rubicund sales ads) what will remain? Only lovers in rural lanes will hereafter lift their eyes through glittery foliage and salute the orb. . . . A standardized calendar will do away with our last vestigial connection to a real heaven. So the urban business mind decrees. But some of us will continue to praise the moon, living and dying blessed...