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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mass in 1863 at the age of 71, called it his "last mortal sin," marked one passage Allegro Cristiano (quick but Christian), confessed he did not know whether it was "musique sacrée ou sacrée musique" (sacred or accursed music), made one tenor solo, Domine Deus, sound like a swashbuckler's serenade, and directed that the composition should be sung by "three sexes-men, women and eunuchs." The Westminster Choir got along all right with the first...
When spectacled, studious John M. Cassells (a onetime Rhodes Scholar, later a Harvard instructor) was a youth, he worked in a wholesale fruit house. One of his functions was to mix bad peanuts with sound ones. He found the job particularly disagreeable because he was a Sunday School teacher. Mr. Cassells became interested in consumers' problems. Year and a half ago, when the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. about $40,000 a year to found an Institute for Consumer Education, Stephens took John Cassells, then 37, from Harvard, made him director of its Institute...
...give, but he desires something further. He feels, often unconsciously, the need for establishing, in Dewey's phrase, "the continuity of artistic experience with normal processes of living" in order that his experience of art may become a part of the equipment with which he is to establish a sound, happy and useful integration between himself and his world--that present world in which, quite naturally, he is primarily interested. He rather resents the academic habit which separates past and present and ignores their reciprocal relationship. He wants taste in the present tense, in the sense implied by Lionello Venturl...
...noted comedienne explained, "I guess that may sound a bit 'screwy' to you, young man, but my son wants to attend Harvard after his graduation from Harrow, which fact, I believe, takes the kick out of my statement...
...literary stylist, but that's not al all true. My education was so meagre that when I started to write my column, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to spell the words I ran up against. Consequently, I just spell them the way they sound--herz d'ecuvres are just plain "aw-devres...