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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People's Choice. The scene is a hectic, cocktail-mad Manhattan; the hero a politician who beats his way up from the ranks to the U. S. presidency and loses the woman he loves. Despite Antheil's claim that he is deeply patriotic ("in the Walt Whitman way"), that Transatlantic is an idealistic, not a satiric opera, it seemed to most just a peevish wholesale burlesque of the U. S. Satire or burlesque, it was voted a petty piece musically and dramatically. It pleased only those who could be taken in by noisy orchestration and such cinematized scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Peevish Opera | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...many Manhattanites who used to live there, has been variously entitled the bedroom of New York City, a group of small towns, "the city of churches," and New York's "rive gauche" (left bank). But Brooklyn has an esthetic tradition all its own. There lived Poet Walt Whitman, Critic James Gibbons Huneker, Artist Joseph Pennell. There in the picturesque "Brooklyn Heights" section overlooking New York Harbor, live many refugees from Manhattan's "arty" and despoiled Greenwich Village, including one of the most touted figures in contemporary painting- Yasuo Kuniyoshi (TIME, April 7). And Brooklyn has an art museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Brooklyn | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...reveals deep appreciation and true understanding admirably supported by sound sesthetic standards. "Poetry and Poets," which may be considered one of the last autheritic utterances of the old New England school of liberals, contains among other things, Miss Lowell's views on "Poetry, Imagination, and Education," Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and D. R. Lawrence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Colleges, Poetry, and Life | 5/8/1930 | See Source »

...difficulty is obvious. In doubtful cases neither the school nor the boy dares to walt till his last school-year to find out if he is to be permitted to take the new plan examinations. He cannot revert at the last moment to the old plan and have freshly in mind the knowledge needs to pass eleven examinations in June and September of a single year. A reference to the representative course of study above given will show that he has not studied Plane Geometry for a year, that he has not studied Algebra for two years. If the school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kerns and Brown Discuss Preparatory School Educational Problem---Present Their Views on Subject of Crimson Study | 4/29/1930 | See Source »

...Born in Switzerland, Composer Bloch is a U. S. citizen. His last symphonic work, America, is a patriotic outburst in the manner of Walt Whitman (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brahms for Brahmins | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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