Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name to plume its faculty list this autumn, it sent an invitation to Arnold Schönberg who, being a Jew, was leaving his job at the Prussian Academy of Music in Berlin. Great was the interest aroused by Schönberg's acceptance. He has upset conservative concertgoers more than any other modern composer. Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago. The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company put on, is a Schönberg stepchild. His pupil...
...race will be a close one with entries full of fast runners. Foremost of the host of favorites is William Bonthron of Princeton who upset predictions by winning both the 1500 meter and the 3000 meter in the I.C.4A. meet here at Cambridge last spring. He is one of the leading milers of the country, and is expected to win. The Harvard chances, however, seem very good this year. Robert S. Playfair '36 and Arthur S. Pier '35 lead the ten Crimson runners who are entered. Playfair is Harvard's best prospect in the race. Last year, he lost...
...conference with his economic encourage, the President has announced that the government will enter the European market for gold. Although this should have been obvious to all who had examined the basis of his program for the commodity dollar, Wall Street chose to pull a face long enough to upset the day's trading and between the money changer and the moneychanger an unpleasant altercation threatens to develop. More significant than this, however, is the effect which the President's action must have on the growing tide of economic nationalism. A frank and cynical attempt by a great nation...
...forged for their purposes, and one which they have wielded well. That weapon is the spirit of nationalism. With conviction born of psychological necessity these men have hallowed that sentiment with the bathos of a thousand speeches, a thousand parades. Pushed on by the pressure of those who would upset them, they have identified the welfare of the country with the success of their own class; and they have further attempted to lay a smokescreen of patriotism before the issues where they stand in political danger. In England in 1931, in France today, in Germany last March, in Italy...
...most surprising upset of the University Tennis Tournament, Stanley G. Haskins '35 eliminated Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, yesterday afternoon in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. Haskins is a comparative unknown, while Whitbeck was the captain of his Freshman team. This victory for Haskins places him in the semi-final round...