Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vaudeville was back on Broadway for the first time since 1932. The new offering, Vaudeville Marches On, retains the old spirit and most of the old gags. Best number: The Wiere Brothers, three European cutups who literally draw laughter...
...emotion in questions of labor may be well founded, but few will deny that Harvard's professor far outshone his rivals in legal experience and vision. Perhaps Frankfurter himself hammered home the nail when he said in his book with Dean Landis on the Supreme Court, "The powers and spirit thus demanded of the bar, the universities alone can cultivate...
...test of a man is the fight he makes," is the motto that hangs in the San Francisco office of shy, chunky Banker Ashby Oliver Stewart. This is the sort of spirit to endear him to famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, currently facing the biggest fight of his career, result of an SEC crackdown charging Giannini's Transamerica Corp. with a false and misleading securities registration (TIME, Dec. 12). In 1933 Banker Stewart took over from "A. P." the Bankitaly Mortgage Co. Last week he took over a "large block of stock" and the chairmanship of Bancamerica-Blair, investment...
This literal translation from the late German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke gives a crude but not misleading idea of Rilke's utter reliance on beauty as a human achievement that needs no advertising. No greater justification for Rilke's reliance could be found than the spirit in which his translator, M. D. Herter Norton, has done Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Norton, $2.50). In Translator Norton's foreword, she explains with noteworthy clarity that although all of a poem is lost in translation, no real poem can ever really be lost. In translation...
...were good enough to win him a Nobel Prize (1919). For a long time he has whooped up the merits of hardheaded experiment as against those of dreamy theory. Last spring, in the British journal Nature, he succeeded in getting published a manifesto entitled "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics" (TIME, May 23). In this he declared that the Jews-e. g., Einstein-have always tended to be theorists and dogmatists in science, that their influence is evil. The editors of 'Nature pooh-poohed this tirade, but printed it for the scrutiny of scientists in free countries...