Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poetic moral license commonly granted artists. The McNally-Lawson Wagner states the morality of an artist very clearly when he confesses that he has been mean, selfish, harsh, unfaithful, ungrateful; but, he says, he has learned his trade so well that no one in the world can teach him anything about music, and he has never allowed the most egregious hardships and humiliations to swerve him from his job of composing great music...
Nevertheless, for a major contribution to the development of American civilization, which President Conant seemed to favor in his Tercentenary speeches, emphasis on American literature in Harvard appears essential. One full and one half course in this field are scarcely enough to teach the present generation the indicative traditions of their forefathers...
...good, and they will profit far more from the work of this cramming than from having a painless filling up on the south side of the Avenue. If they can't well and good. Out they go. As is, they might get their diplomas from the people that do teach them, if the process can be dignified by that word...
Even the more reputable of the brethren, who do not write theses for hire, and who try in some measure to teach, have never pulled their weight in the boat here. It is perhaps too much to expect, if not too much to hope, that the Questionnaire should be the beginning of the end. RED RIDING HOOD
...live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis, the swinish profiteer and his fat mistresses. He escaped Nazi concentration camps by going to the U. S. in 1932 to teach at the Art Students' League. Nazis did the best they could by burning his books, persistently referring to him as a Jew. Actually George Grosz is as "Aryan" as Hitler. In the U. S. he has continued his biting attack against war and fascism, is proud of his suburban...