Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told the CRIMSON reporter that it had been his New Year's resolution to write two symphonies. Asked about what tendencies he had observed in modern American music, he said that so much was being composed that it was hard to tell, but that he had noticed a bent toward smoother rhythm and harmony "Since I wrote the rhapsody several pieces have been written in the American idiom, call it jazz, blues or what you will I believe that in a few years classics will appear that could not have been composed anywhere except in the United States...
...medieval scientific theories have always furnished much amusement to the people of this more enlightened age. Particularly have students enjoyed the anecdote that divines of the thirteenth century argued furiously the number of angels able to stand on the point of a pin. But the layman in his attitude toward science today is often stupid where the ancients whom he reads were merely uninformed. His conception of the action of a radio, or psycho-analysis is no more intelligent than their belief in the efficacy of a saint's bones or the spices from a mummy. And one wonders...
...clubs received enthusiastic applause at every concert, and the warmest welcome at the innumerable teas and dances they attended. Particulary were the men congratulated by the members of struggling Harvard Clubs, and thanked for the assistance so strongly given in the task of breaking down the popular attitude toward the University...
...possess a particle of your leader's [Dr. Sun Yat-sen's] vision or remember that close co-operation with Soviet Russia was his last will, then you will stop this headlong plunging toward a precipice, dragging with you the fate of your country...
...letter accompanying the circular was the following paragraph: ". . . Barton's two books interest and aid the rich and powerful; they help any cub salesman to get orders for shoe polish?and to work on principles that lead him toward riches and power...