Word: scales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There follows a terrific fortissimo "Jersualem" in all voices, which is followed by a gradual diminuendo as the tenors continue their nervous melody, the baritones subside down the scale, and the basses chant repeatedly an ever-quieter "Jerusalem." This structure is typical of the whole piece-rapid crescendos, gradual diminuendos, sudden shouts, and nervous bits of melody...
Under the new act. Parliament hopes to invigorate the home industry by 1) upping the quota and 2) exterminating the quota quickie. Under the new sliding scale, Hollywood must this year produce 15 films in England for every 100 of its own it shows here. In hte next ten years the requirement will rise to 30 films per 100. But to qualify as a quota film under the new law, a production must represent at least $37,500 in British studio labor costs. Since labor is reckoned at about half the total cost of production, quota films in future will...
...immense field of Soviet architecture and city planning. Last week, in Robinson Hall of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, of which Joseph Hudnut is dean, the 47 panels of Soviet plans and photographs were standing a severe if mute criticism. Displayed in the centre of the hall were scale models of housing projects, factories and homes designed not by Russian architects but by Harvard students. By contrast with their clean functionalism, many of the recent Soviet buildings looked confused, bourgeois...
...Klee's methods of drawing has been summed up by Critic Herbert Read as "taking a walk with a line." This is an accurate description not only of his procedure but sometimes of his scale: the expanse of paper or canvas being imagined as a field of any dimension up to, and possibly including, infinity. It is Perambulator Klee's frequent achievement not only to imagine such a field for himself but to open it up somehow to the spectator. One water color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first...
...since 1934 but gold was pouring into the country at a rate which showed that the rest of the world still thinks the U. S. the safest place to cache its valuables. The stock market proceeded to slip from 107 to 98 on the Dow-Jones industrial scale. These mixed statistics could be interpreted almost any way. But both Henry Ford and Jesse Jones chose to be optimistic...