Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secondary schools open to every child in France. Then four university years at Lille and Paris, majoring in English and graduating with a B. A. English instructor at a Paris lycée or high school. Marriage. Instructor of Phonetics at the Sorbonne. Much poorly paid writing of text books in collaboration with his wife. War. Served all four years as interpreter to a British artillery regiment. Then the great, unexpected appointment as Chief Interpreter to the Paris Peace Conference, the chance of a lifetime which turned a brittle, impecunious professor into the confidant of the Big Three at their...
...Emperor lay battling for life in Buckingham Palace (TIME, Dec. 3, et seq.), the royal and imperial authority was exercised in an adjoining room by the Regency Council, presided over by Queen Mary. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture rushed to news-publications "for immediate release" the text of "An Order in Council issued at Buckingham Palace on Dec. 21, 1928," and apparently just discovered by the Department...
...noises issuing from the Copland-Sessions Concerts in Manhattan since last spring, when Composers Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions inaugurated them as a clearinghouse for untried music of their contemporaries. Formidably foolish, almost awesome, appeared the prospect of a Copland-Sessions concert next week, with music by Virgil Thomson, text by Gertrude Stein...
Excerpts from the Stein text: Did he and his wife and his sister expect to eat little birds. Little birds least of all. All the capitals that begin with A. Aix Aries and Avignon. Those that begin with be Beaux. That makes four. These that begin with B. Barcelona. Those that begin with M. Marseilles and Mallorca. You mean Palma. Yes P. Palma da Mallorca. . First Capital: Egypt. Second Capital: Rabbit. Third Capital: Fingering. Fourth Capital: Ardently silk. Fourth Capital: Spontaneously married. Third Capital: Camel's hair. Second Capital: Eider Down. First Capital: Chenille...
Composer Thomson is 33, a native of Kansas City who was educated at Harvard and has lived since 1925 in Paris. His purpose in choosing a text done in Gertrude Stein's way was, he says, to concentrate all attention on the linguistic problems by getting rid of all meaning...