Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Song of Democracy, under the composer's baton. The work was inspired by the uncouth verses of America's hoary revolutionary poet, "chanting the great pride of man in himself." It was composed in Germany, Australia, New York, between 1901 and 1918. The original plan was to write it for voices and whistlers only (no instruments), and to have it performed by a chorus of men, women and children singing and whistling to the accompaniment of their tramping feet as they marched along in the open air. But a later realization of the need fqr instrumental color, inherent...
...visit was to make a bronze medal of the writer, who was then sick-a-bed, making his plans for a visit to the South Sea Islands. There was great difficulty in getting a pose which was not artificial and forced. The sculptor at last suggested that Stevenson write something. He picked up a sheet of paper and began, at once falling into the natural pose immortalized in the famed St. Gaudens Medal. At the end of the pose, Stevenson handed the sculptor the sheet he had been writing. It proved to be a letter to the seven year...
...well confess that I do not read Czecho-Slovak, although if certain dramatists do not stop writing their curiously interesting--I am tempted to say, confoundedly provoking--dramas in that language, it may soon become a required course for the student of the drama. But I must not forget that I am trying to write this from the standpoint of the man in the audience; the man who may be such a student, but who above all, wants to see a "good show...
...should be a better cook than a politician? He or she, gets his living on delicacies compounded from the melting pot. But on the other hand who would expect a politician to write a cook book? He, or she, gets his living by keeping his recipes to himself...
...cannot drive a gasoline engine with lubricating oil alone, and one cannot drive it well without a lubricating oil. It is the same with History. One cannot write a history consisting only of anecdotes and sidelights, but a history without these is barren, inadequate, unpalatable. So it is not a history that David S. Barry, onetime Senate page, longtime newspaper correspondent, and more recently Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, has written in his memoirs of four decades at the Capitol. He has furnished one of the lubricants of history...