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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is always hard to decide to what extent an influential artistic figure is a product of the period in which he lives and, on the other hand, to what extent he has instigated and furthered the tendencies of his time. Strawinsky, however, has certainly been the leader in developing...

Author: By L. C. Hoivik, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

Result, in 1939: big U. S. incomes are taxed up to 75%. Within sight, if U. S. leveling tradition holds good, says Author Myers, is the time when taxation will have done for inherited wealth what the repeal of primogeniture and entail did for the great landed estates. In 1930...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vanishing Assets | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Thus considered, the novel is far from fascinating. What gives it its considerable interest is Author Holden's dogged, intelligent exploration of precisely those matters which run-of-the-mine novelists shirk: namely, the ambiguous complexities of even the most "normal" motives and actions. These subtleties and minutiae are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Shirker | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

The vice which the ladies played to the skies when they were agitating for equal rights is raging just about as strongly as ever before, if we can believe what we read in the New York Mirror....

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

If it is not too much to be asking on the morning before the first houseparty night of the season, we have always wanted to know just what were the great benefits bestowed upon the nation by the nineteenth or woman's suffrage amendment--a law which was ballyhooed to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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