Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporting the latest legal maneuver of the Haugwitz-Reventlows, TIME and the whole U. S. press slipped. Countess Babs still has most...
...facing an enemy, Britain last week turned in her tracks. It was an impressive and world-shaking spectacle. Hard as it is for Britain to change, in one short week she turned her back on a longestablished policy of no military commitments in Europe east of the Rhine-turned, whole-elephant, and guaranteed that the British Fleet, along with the French Army (and the combined Air Forces of the two nations) would fight to protect the States of Eastern Europe from further Nazi aggression...
...With the whole world thus searching for loopholes in the British pledge, Septuagenarian Chamberlain this week rose again to speak in the House. In the diplomatic gallery U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky, French Ambassador André Corbin listened. On the floor the group of M. P.'s who had long scoffed at the Prime Minister's efforts to get along with Herr Hitler hung on his words...
...long time jazz, the blowsiest of the arts, has needed to have its hair combed and its socks pulled up. Not until last week, when a scholar from the other side of the musical tracks took time out to tidy up the whole subject, had anyone done much sound thinking or writing about one of America's two native art forms (the other: the animated cartoon...
...played the piano on Fletcher Henderson's record of Wang Wang Blues. Instead, he rolls up his sleeves and squares off with a lucid chapter on "Improvisation, Notation and the Aesthetics of Folk Music." "Folk music," says Author Sargeant, "is the anonymous and musically illiterate expression of a whole people." America's folk music is jazz and the folk who originated it were Negroes. The contention is an old one, but hitherto nobody had taken such trouble to authenticate...