Word: stark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin the season with music it knew well and loved. The Philharmonic engaged Klemperer to be "spokesman for the internationally modern composer." And true to his calling he played Schönberg's gilded transcription of Bach's E Flat Prelude and Fugue and Sibelius' stark Second Symphony...
...face of these stark facts that some 200 civic leaders and social workers gathered in Washington last week to launch the Fourth Mobilization for Human Needs, super-campaign of propaganda for all private charities. At its head, as he had been under President Hoover, was able, eloquent Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland, Wartime Secretary of War. The mobilizers gathered first on the White House lawn for a greeting from the President. His job was difficult: to steer the sentiment of the country back to the Hoover philosophy of voluntary giving while continuing the Roosevelt practice of direct relief based...
...whole vast humanitarian surges for the elimination of the sweatshops and child labor are perverted in such a cartoon as appeared in yesterday's Tribune, which advertises a non-existent situation to become stark propaganda for the return of both sweatshops and child labor...
There is only one Rintelen. All Austria knows that last year Chancellor Dollfuss bought off potent pro-Nazi Dr. Anton Rintelen, the uncrowned "King Anton" of the Austrian province of Styria, by the fat plum of making him Ambassador at Rome. The stark, one-sentence radio announcement was seemingly intended to convey to Austria that a Nazi Putsch headed by "King Anton" had succeeded. When a radio actor found a revolver and started shooting, a cool Nazi hurled a hand grenade, blew him to blazes. Meanwhile back at the Ballhaus ten pistol-brandishing Nazis had burst down the last white...
...life guided by a desperate need for food and an equally desperate desire to avoid the notice of the OGPU, then months in filthy prisons, finally escape through northern Russia into Finland. All this has been told before by other exiles, but here it is set forth with a stark simplicity that strikes home like a javelin...