Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazing fidelity. The playing of Gieseking is, needless to say, of the highest order, to state it conventionally. The composition itself is one of the most intriguing of its kind. It is really a set of variations for piano and orchestra in a sort of symphonic union, a large-scale and serious continuation of the variation form of Haydn and Beethoven: for example, the last movement of "Eroica". The opening themeing is a characteristic of Franck, being rather mournful in essence but soon developed dramatically. From this "Sehnsucht" beginning the piece undergoes a transformation of mood and ends quite joyously...
...plea is for radical politics and religious conservatism, but he has not fallen into the facile synthesis which is becoming fashionable in our seminaries. He realizes that however close Christianity and Marxism may be in their fundamental assumptions and in their scale of values, the religious content of the one and the institutional weight of the other puts them at cross purposes. Both movements have been quick to follow the line of least resistance, but only in their agreement can a sane solution of our problems have the chance of survival...
...this on the part of the reactionaries, however, offers the government a superb opportunity to realize the suspected designs of Professor Frankfurter upon the virtue of the Constitution. If the budget is not balanced, if the C.W.A. is not curtailed, is, in fact, revived on an even larger scale than at present, and if Wall Street is effectively abolished, then the depression can be blamed upon the money changers and everything will be fine and dandy. In view of the fact, moreover, that private outlets for capital have proven themselves inadequate in the past to effect the necessary conversion...
...deaf ear to all pleas for modification of the Securities Act. Last week he seemed to be swinging over to the idea of reasonable relaxations of the Act. Purpose: to encourage long term investment by private capital-investment that might put men to work for industry on much larger scale than the wheezy Public Works program...
...badly-run business end. Cried he: "Certainly no intelligent group of businessmen would tolerate accounting systems so unstandardized that a comparative study of costs is almost impossible. Certainly no commercial enterprise could exist with so chaotic a labor situation as prevails in our hospitals, where a completely unstandardized wage scale has resulted in an annual turnover large enough to wreck the average business...