Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most popular Brazilian musical form is the chôro (pronounced shoro}, in which one instrument in an ensemble improvises on a theme, in about the same way that a U. S. jazz musician "takes a chorus" for a solo ride. Villa-Lobos has composed 14 choros, ranging from a guitar solo to a magnificent, jungle-rhythmed piece, Choros No. 10, for chorus and orchestra...
When the history of American education during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries comes to be write, the development of the state-supported universities will be dominant theme. The tremendous growth of there institutions during the first half of the twentieth century is a unique phenomenon. This growth will be recorded by historians as clear evidence that the optimistic intellectual courage born of the fifteenth century Renaissance was, five centuries later, still driving westward with undiminished vigor...
Since Biddle's chief interest lies in the field of public utilities, his talk will probably be built around that theme. It was he who opened the Roosevelt campaign in Seattle this fall with an attack on Wondell Willkie's utility connections...
Invariably his pugnacity and his conviction led him into trouble, whether it was in trying to paint his class numerals on an Elwood gastank or in delivering a valedictory address on the theme that the faculty was incompetent to teach law. In one case he got a broken arm; in the other his degree was withheld 24 hours...
These Black Watch recruits-of highly varied social, vocational and racial backgrounds, representing a true cross section of Canadian Youth-constitute in themselves a violent negation of the Whitehouse logic. Their theme song on camp route marches was There'll Always Be An England-and it arose from both hearts and lips. They are also genuinely fond of the U. S.-and after the destroyer deal I heard more than one rendition of God Bless America. To infer that these sentiments are incompatible is nonsense...