Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporary composers who has the respect of conservatives and radicals alike is Ernest Bloch, Jew by blood, Swiss by birth, American by citizenship. Everyone who knows of Bloch knows he is a Jew. His greatest works declaim the suffering of the Hebrews, their religious exaltation. Last week in Manhattan Bloch's faith and eloquence were manifested again in the U. S. premiere of his Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), a setting for the liturgical texts used in the Hebrew temple. Composer Bloch conducted the performance, given by the 250 choristers of the New York Schola Cantorum, 80 members...
...prepare students to cope with the problems of society, it is obviously more important to Mr. Conant that the University shall receive the country's most brilliant young men, regardless of their pecuniary circumstances, and shall inspire these young men with "an enthusiasm for creative scholarship and a respect for the accumulated intellectual treasures of the past." Mr. Conant's concern for the forgotten scholar has already brought about the creation of five prize fellowships designed to tap social and geographical areas not now drawn upon. It is certain that this is but a beginning of the President's plans...
...treatment of the movie differs from the play only in one important respect. Where on the stage it was a sparkling uncut gem, on the screen the edges have been nicely polished off, but the lustre has lost a little of its brilliance. This is most obvious in the difference between the interpretations of Alexander Kirkland and Clark Gable of the young interne, Dr. Ferguson. It was through the shoddy places in Kirkland's portrayal that the sincerity of his performance stood out. Gable brings to the movies a capable, even performance, but seems to lose a little of that...
...more angle. No one doubts of Mr. Emery's loyal and faithful service, no one doubts of his integrity, but the new and the old do not amalgamate with ease, and with the ascension to power of the one the other is bound to go, taking with it a respect and honor born of years of faithful service...
...either a peaceful revolution or a bloody one-for ten, 20 or 50 more years, until it has achieved its purpose." Even most Republicans would agree with the anonymous Observer that Roosevelt has political "it" and that he has given the U. S. hope, action and self-respect, that he "is not a political cardsharper . . . [but] follows the play rather than any system." Roosevelt likes to talk, says the Observer, has no sense of the passage of time. One of the periodic jobs of his secretaries is to break up Cabinet meetings when they have reached the story-telling stage...