Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Finn attributes his transcendent choral effects to the cajoling rather than the browbeating of his talent. His rehearsals are continuously good-humored. He is a genius at making singers relax. For martinet choirmasters Father Finn has nothing but contempt. Writes he, in his effulgent Hibernian prose: "Sometimes [these conductors...
With grand strategy fixed at Quebec, it was evident in the President's doings that he was now occupied with actual tactics, military, diplomatic and political. Foremost in the array of tactical problems before him was personnel in his top command. In this area he made changes and moves...
The program's natural flow and fun springs very largely from the characters and voices of Joe and Pepe. They are neither professors, semanticists nor actors. Joe is huge, hugely bald Joel Grover Sayre, author (Rackety Rax, etc.), newspaperman (New York Herald Tribune, etc.), Hollywood scenarist (Gunga Din, etc...
The two most eloquent passages in the book meditate these effects collectively: upon Chinese soldiers and civilians of all classes, above all the peasants, who have been shaken and sharpened into a transcendent courage; and upon the Japanese troops, who have been spiritually demented into the dismembering of live animals...
Died. Louis Michel Eilshemius, 77, self-styled Grand Transcendent Eagle of Art; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A painter for some 50 years, he turned out more than 5,000 canvases, failed to attract either fame or buyers till he was a broken old man. He was then embraced as a...