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...daughter, Luba. From a simple, naive person he has changed to one who is autocratic, imperiously sure of his countless opinions on acoustics, lighting, radio, printing, painting, the habit of applause (TIME, Nov. 18). At a recent rehearsal he and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff almost came to blows over the tempo of a Rachmaninoff concerto concerning which Stokowski felt he knew better than the composer. Indicative, too, is the feeling of his men, changed now from one of adoration to respect. The Philadelphia Orchestra has no baseball team...
...lampoons and picturesqueness, it is the reliable spirit of low comedy which prevails. There is a comical, hungry goat, and there is Mr. Reginald Carrington as a lovable old Lord who can scarcely move without veering into some of the precarious makeshift furniture, thereby causing its collaspse. Whenever the tempo lags or the substance thins, some such violent commotion as Mr. Carrington's table-toppling is almost bound to provoke a horselaugh...
...giant with steel tendons which is Fascist Italy! We can take a little rest in order shortly to accelerate the tempo of our march. All public works not strictly necessary must be postponed. We propose to give the Italian taxpayers a period of repose. Dazio Consumo* [intercity taxation] is a relic of the Middle Ages now maintained only in France, Greece and Italy. It must be abolished...
...beyond the comprehension of the average man in that incessant spiritual activity, almost as old as the human species, which we call art. . . . The machine age promises to provide more and more opportunity for leisure. Those who tire of the accelerated pace of modern life and the furious tempo of its entertainments may turn to the fine arts for a cultivation of their vacant time. In such a belief I am striving year after year to interpret to people, distracted by . . . worthless diversions, not only the artist's point of view, collectively, as a state of mind common...
...slump (currently almost ignored in favor of the peculiar theory that the Market crashed without warning) was of tremendous importance in its indication that a Market which could survive only by constant rises had reached the limits of its climb. 3) Most important of all, indications of a slowing tempo in U. S. industry. The motor stocks, for example, had long since fallen from their January highs?a forecast of slackening production in the latter portion of the year. Now steel mills were no longer running at 97% and 98% of capacity. Slowly the Market began to realize that...