Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to your article, Dr. Hutchins selected "Jokake" because it is not what is generally known as a progressive school, but in contrast offers a sound foundation in fundamentals. Also, Frances' enrollment was made a year in advance as part of a sound educational program and was not, as implied in your article, an impulse of the moment...
Last week, Samuel Insull made newspaper copy for the last time. Old (78), broken in spirit, for the past year virtually an exile in Europe, living on his pension of $21,000-a-year granted by still-sound de-Insullated operating companies, he returned to Paris from a brief visit to the U. S. just in time to watch France's Bastille Day celebration. Few days later, while his wife was shopping, he stepped down into the metro subway on his way to lunch. There, alone in the Place de la Concorde Station, his tired heart suddenly stopped...
...recently he asked his radio listeners if he should make a "businessman's campaign" for Governor. He claims that "54,499" people soon wrote in urging him to run. So, in a sound truck with a speaker's stand on top, he set out through the State-with no manager, no party machine, no platform, no headquarters except his home or his hotel room, no knowledge of any political rules except to entertain the crowds, to promise $30 per month to every Texan 65 or over, to kid "professional politicians...
...flouted time-honored symphonic proprieties by writing naturalistic musical descriptions of mundane scenes and events. In his symphonic poem, Don Quixote, he made the brass instruments of the orchestra bleat like sheep. In his later Symphonia Domestica, an enormous orchestra of 108 players was set to work imitating the sound of a baby in a bathtub. He boasted that he could depict anything in music recognizably, even a glass of water. Critics deplored his vulgarity, but they had to admit that Composer Strauss was one of the most gifted orchestrators in the history of orchestral music...
...with an expressive shrug, "Ich bin künstler" ("I am an artist"). For an artist, genial, beer-drinking Strauss is an unusually shrewd business man. Famed as a hard bargainer, he is one of the few men in history to make the art of highbrow musical composition a sound and dividend-paying proposition...