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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sinfonia Domestica, which had its world premiere in Manhattan almost exactly 20 years ago. This symphony in one movement represents a day in the composer's life; it has three leading themes, representing Papa, Mama and the Baby. The Baby's theme is the noisiest, and comes to the fore particularly in a spot which represents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gloomy Strauss | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Bureaucratic centralization, standardization and maternalism seemed to be the aims of the 28th annual Congress of Parents and Teachers, meeting at the University of Minnesota, in the City of St. Paul. For the second consecutive year the theme was Adult Home Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In St. Paul | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Education should tear away the enshrouding myths of collective passions and stimulate in their place a just and rational skepticism: that was the theme of Bertrand Russell's lecture before the largest and most enthusiastic audience which has filled the Living Room of the Union in the past year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERTRAND RUSSELL MAKES STRONG PLEA FOR REAL FREEDOM | 5/17/1924 | See Source »

...years. For when the young male turns to love to satisfy the cosmic urge, the female instinctively turns to meeting and conference. Whatever may be her mission or purpose in life, it is a rare Spring nowadays which fails to provide a conference or a convention on a suitable theme. Last week* provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Springtime | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...Herbert Kraus of Germany, Ger man Foreign Office expert, whose theme is Present Conditions in Germany and Central Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watered Gruel | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

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