Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draperies of a vestal virgin, was fervently wooed by Edward Johnson, U. S. tenor, disguised as a Roman soldier in the Metropolitan's revival of La Vestale, a totally unoriginal opera written 100 years ago by Gasparo Spontini. Critics agree that this composer understood one thing- how to write for the voice. For the rest he depended on Gluck and what he could remember of Mozart. Elaborately staged, furbished with the faultless voice of Miss Ponselle, it will, they think, be popular...
...been the diversion of certain modernist critics to write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility...
...more figure added to a string of decimals, a barely perceptible change of color in a test tube, a splinter of light measured against the angle of a graphed mirror-and the thing is done. The laboratory worker wipes his hands on his apron and goes home to write a paper for the next meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Last week that notable body, convening in Madison, Wis., listened to various amazing reports...
...long been known that Edward S. Jordan, President of Jordan Motors, writes his company's advertisements. Unlike many another captain of industry, he can scan The Saturday Evening Post and glow with a feeling of authorship. Against his occasional detractors he launches the modest battle cry: "I don't think much of Jordan advertising myself, but I love to write it. It's the only fun I have...
...Author. John Erskine is a professor of English at Columbia University. He is 46, and most of his life has been devoted to writing and editing things resembling textbooks, and to employing more or less of his cleverness in speaking to more or less appreciative audiences. He has now turned his wit loose and decided to write something that appeals to himself...