Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday Bingham left for New York again. "He's gone to a rowing committee meeting," said his secretary, but she admitted the office was a little self-conscious that the two trips had followed each other so closely...
Happily, it is not a question of money. The cooperative is determined to be financially self-supporting, and with good management this should be possible. What the University can and should do is provide housing, for with Cambridge, rents what they are, overhead is a particularly knotty problem. The location on a second floor of Church Street should be regarded as temporary, or at least a nucleus; for the co-op should have not only a dining hall and kitchen but common and game rooms as well. This will eventually involve a separate building, or, better, three: one north...
Saint Francis, most ambitious and startling of the three, was a colorful, ingenious mixture of secondhand religious fervor with syrup of ballet: it caused terrific applause. Saint Francis had the advantage of a score by famed self-exiled German "Kulturbolschewist" Paul Hindemith (TIME, March 14), which proved to be not only top-flight Hindemith but the finest contemporary ballet music Manhattanites had heard since the palmiest days of Igor Stravinsky. To its subtly suggestive, drypoint phrases, Saint Francis (Choreographer Massine), in a medieval setting, pursued his ideal of Poverty (paradoxically embodied by demure, eye-filling Ballerina Theilade), tamed...
...brilliant self-defense before a hostile court, Henriette won acquittal, went to the U.S., taught in a fashionable girls' school in Manhattan. She married Henry Field, a preacher-writer ten years her junior, and for two decades, until her death in 1875, reigned as a famous hostess in a Gramercy Park salon frequented by William Cullen Bryant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel Morse, Fanny Kemble...
Tickets for these open nights must be obtained in advance by sending a self addressed, stamped envelope to the Observatory...