Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always sang and played just for the fun of it, never thought of turning professional. When Soprano Lotte Lehmann heard them, she suggested concerts. When Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg heard them over the radio, he invited them to sing in Vienna. Soon the von Trapps were touring the whole map of Europe...
Last week the taste of Mozart's letters offered by Critic Turner was extended into a whole banquet by the publication for the first time in English of the complete Mozart family correspondence.** Gathering, editing and translating the 600-odd letters of the collection had cost Emily Anderson, a publicity-shy British music-lover and scholar, ten years of scholarly effort. Readers of the newly-published letters found Critic Turner's impressions confirmed, found further that Composer Wolfgang Amadeus and his shrewd, harried Father Leopold Mozart were penetrating and sometimes irreverent observers of the manners of their time...
...psychiatric clinics for groups of teachers, supervisors, school board members, ministers, newspaper editors, physicians, nurses, dentists, veterinarians. The Foundation also offered to help build new schools. At first the inhabitants voted down these offers, were apathetic to this attempt to lift the general level of living of the whole community. But gradually the Foundation saw to it that the schools acquired toilets and electric lights, better instruction and medical attention, and in general the darkened communities began to grow bright, cheerful and happier...
...Carl, eightyish, U. S. portrait painter; scalded by hot water in her bathtub; in Manhattan. In 1903, after arrangements requiring infinite tact and ceremony, Miss Carl started to paint the portrait of China's Dowager Empress. When she had finished three, Her Majesty was so pleased with the whole procedure that she wanted Miss Carl to continue painting her picture indefinitely...
...brash days even Wall Street believed limited editions a good thing. Once only millionaires and professional bibliophiles collected first editions. By the late 20s, however, even plain readers were buying a few, just as they bought a few stocks. And even printers began publishing de luxe editions. Of the whole lot, only two de luxe publishers survived Depression I: George Macy's Limited Editions Club, and Eugene Virginius Connett Ill's Derrydale Press...