Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mines, oil wells, rubber plantations, graves of the mythless white race." Though conservatives complain about his shocking dissonances, Hindemith has always shown a strong sense of form. He can handle counterpoint as well as any man alive. The German Republic, which liked moderns, gave him a medieval tower to live in. The Hochschule in Berlin made him professor of composition. When the Nazis removed Hindemith and tabooed his works because his wife is Jewish, Wilhelm Furtwangler temporarily resigned his posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic out of indignation. Though Paul Hindemith...
...Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...
Down from the ivory tower of the Harvard Advocate has issued a critique of the college's athletic difficulties that clarions the need for a permanent endowment policy. It is true that Harvard has climbed few of the stairs leading toward the goal of an endowment fund large enough to divorce the sports program from dependence on gate receipts. If minor sports are permanently to be retained, and if a successful intra-mural program is to be developed, President Conant must propagate with all his energies the endowment ideal among the alumni, and it is to be hoped that...
...with contrast invades even the non-fictional prose or this issue. The book reviews are filled with the problems of perversion and suffering, literary experiment and revolution, frustration and release. But the most comprehensive discontent is expressed in a lengthy article by Arthur Rosenbloom, "Hara-kiri in the Ivory Tower". Mr. Rosenbloom uses the Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts and Sciences as his springboard, and from it launches into a vehement stream of reflections on the plight of the modern academic intellectual. Exposing with more vigor than originality the impotence of idealistic reformers, he concludes "If the intellectuals are faced...
...grey building", University Hall, was called "very fine" by Professor Gropius. He also liked the contrast afforded by the thick pillars and slim tower of Memorial Church, which he confused with Memorial Hall, "the gothic affair." He was delighted with the "characteristic old American style" of the Yard buildings, and of houses in Concord, which he said were very gay because of their white painted walls...