Word: uncouthness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming of the portentous work, heralded and omened by illegitimate night lights and uncouth noises from Mt. Auburn Street, and by righteous uneasiness among Harvard professors, presents contemporary and past Harvard men with an opportunity to enjoy themselves. For the authors have held the mirror up to nature (albeit a slightly imperfect mirror) and the defects of Cambridge scholars--dignity, austerity, knowledge, etc.--come through the refining process of distortion until they are seen in their true light. Fifty pages of wit and caricature at three cents per page...
...platonic, except for some early scenes in which the poet behaved himself like Daddy Browning. When Bettina met Beethoven he was still unfamous but very conscious of his worth, and she wrote rhapsodically to Goethe about this unappreciated musical genius. When they finally met, however, Goethe thought Beethoven uncouth; Beethoven considered Goethe an anxious snob. When they met some royalty a-walking, Beethoven barged right through the middle of them, snorting plebeian resentment, while Goethe stood hat in hand by the roadside, bowing, murmuring, "Your Highness! Your Highness!" When Beethoven played and Goethe's eyes filled with tears, Beethoven...
...wreath sent from Stratford-on-Avon to Manhattan was placed at the foot of Shakespeare's statue in Central Park last week by a bleak, shivering little knot of people who were movietoned by two uncouth persons in great coonskin coats. Miss Eva LeGallienne, leading upliftress of Manhattan drama, laid the wreath. Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, ill, was represented by a Mr. Strassburger...
...creature crouched on top of him. Then at the climax a piercing yellow fills the stage as the storm comes up, symbolic of the Man's premonition of impending doom. Despite the complex, sometimes shrill chromatic combinations, Schönberg seemed subdued and civilized compared afterward with naked, uncouth Stravinsky. The stage production was directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The settings and costumes were designed by famed Robert Edmond Jones...