Word: theorist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great theorist himself, he is no advocate of uninterrupted theorizing, but believes that teachers and students should refresh themselves constantly in the practical aspects of music. Already in his course, he is forming a chorus which will start rehearsals for a concert of thirteenth and fourteenth century music in March...
...thought that a strong bull market was just around the corner, but some expected an "intermediate" rise. Said Chicago's Dow Theorist Justin F. Barbour: "The market pattern . . . suggests that 1949 will prove to be a 'Down' year." Then he hedged his remarks. If the market does not break decisively through its low point of last November, he said, it will be a Dow signal that there may be "an important rise." In any case, "a normal bull market is unlikely . . . until all the basic industries are confronted with . . . competitive conditions...
...those who say his theoretical contributions excel the beauty of his music, he replies wistfully: "If I have a choice, I would rather be considered as a composer than as a theorist. As a composer, I may be an artist. As a theorist, I am still a kind of an amateur. But then, I do not know my destiny...
...Communist police work it was just the thing to commend him to his superiors. It was called On the History of the Bolshevik Organization in Trans-Caucasia. Largely through fictitious evidence it disputed Leon Trotsky's charge that Stalin never amounted to much as a pre-revolutionary theorist. Beria's Stalin is always right, always on the Leninist beam, always out in front of "the toiling masses." Why did this crass flattery matter to Stalin, who was already the world's most powerful autocrat? Precisely because the Communist regime had struck no real social roots, it attached...
Married. Andre Malraux, 52, onetime Marxist novelist (Man's Hope, Man's Fate), now No. 1 political theorist and propagandist for Charles de Gaulle; and Madeleine Jeanne Lioux Malraux, thirtyish, pretty widow of his halfbrother, Roland, a Resistance hero who died in a Nazi concentration camp; each for the second time; in Riquewihr, Alsace...