Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welcome balm. In France, where the weather was milder than it had been since 1921, the winter wheat last week was already standing six inches high. Parisian office workers were flocking to eat their lunches in sun-warmed parks, and tulip shoots stood two inches up from the rich, black loam of the Tuileries gardens. Along the Seine the first clochards (hoboes) of the season had taken their places to watch the tugboats pull rows of laden barges upstream and to wonder again why anybody should be fool enough to work in such weather...
...Little can be expected," he declared, "from exhortations to science to produce practical ends. On the contrary, development of our practical technology provided ever-growing and rich fructification for the works of a science. Technology is a good efficient cause, but a very poor final cause for science...
Occasionally criticism becomes an unpleasant task. Such is the case when speaking of Harvard's Music Department. Although it is not so rich as some other departments, although it is not so rich as some other departments, although it is not so big, not so staffed with "names," the Music Department, year after year, has displayed competence, energy, and imagination unsurpassed anywhere in the College. It has frequently sponsored unusual events of national interest. The Faure Festival two years ago, and last year's Symposium on Music Criticism exemplify this extra-curricular activity. And within its curriculum, the department offers...
...Right to Be Rich. Authors Case & Case do not examine intently enough the reasons for Chautauqua's rapid decline (the explanations advanced-the advent of good roads, movies and radio-might explain a falling-off, but not a collapse). But they tell just how the system worked and a good deal about the performers who took to the "man-killing" circuits (seven days a week, often for three months) during the summer heat. William Jennings Bryan was Chautauqua's top attraction for a quarter-century, sometimes drew over 10,000 customers...
...alltime, sure-fire speech ("Old Dependable") was Russell H. Conwell's "Acres of Diamonds," which preached the comforting doctrine that wealth was within the reach of every man: "Get rich, young man, for money is power, and power ought to be in the hands of good people. . . .I say you have no right to be poor. . . ." Conwell gave the lecture 6,000 times, for fees ranging from $100 to $500. Each night, after deducting his expenses, he mailed the money to some "deserving" boy to help him through college. Chautauqua was like that...