Word: sketches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Premier, and is not full rounded until he has resigned and then resumed that office. Therefore, politically sneaking, it was "January" in Rumania last week, for M. Bratiano had just resumed the Premiership once more. He has been absent from office-not from power-for some 15 months. To sketch the events of those months is to trace the orbit, perhaps the horoscope, of Rumania...
...brought further progress in the transition of the author's creative tendencies. It turned his mind to history and the affairs of state. "Frederic and the Great Coalition" is more than a fascinating historical sketch, is a psychological treatise of a historical subject, only too rare in biographical writing. The bulky volume. "The Reflections of an Unpolitical Mind" was the first attempt in Germany to wield into a unit the political ideas and aspirations of Prussia and the philosophical and artistic "Weltanschauung" of the country of "poets and dreamers...
...ashore. A grimly sentimental story, "Kupid's Konfidential Klub," tells about the death of awkward little Soldier Kemper whose speedy achievement of a great desire to be successful in the Army was interrupted when he stood in front of a machine gun. "A Razor Strop" is an embittered sketch of a soldier whose trivial theft leads him to a profitless disaster. Other stories about captains and colonels and knights-at-arms gain their effect from staccato characterization, a style made pungent by army jargon. Author Thomason has much ability to make the minutiae of life significant...
...Wagner's loves are important because of his music, so, reversely, this sketch is important because of the personal distinction of the writer. Louis Barthou was Premier of France from March to December of 1913, is Minister of Justice in the present Cabinet, is a member of the French Academy. His other books have been numerous. One is a study of Victor Hugo's affairs of the heart, Les D'Amours d'un Poete...
Tonight's pops concert, to be held in Symphony Hall, will begin at 8.15 o'clock. The program follows: Marche Militaire Schubert Overture to "Ruy Blas" Mendelssohn "On the Steppes of Middle-Asia" Orchestra Sketch Borodin Orchestral Sketch Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Overture to "Sicilian Vespers" Verdi Symphonic Piece from "Redemption" Franck Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg First Hungarian Dance in G minor Brahms Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner