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Like Stravinsky, Georges Enesco is better known as a composer. Last week's audience was warmest in praise of his Symphony in E Flat Major, found it packed with' thematic material, glowing with unfamiliar melodies. For those who knew about Enesco's boyhood in the Rumanian countryside, this was not surprising...
...stand in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one evening last week, the big audience applauded cordially. Igor Stravinsky peered at them through his double-lensed glasses, curved his heavy lips in greeting. Though he was standing there for the first time in twelve years, few in the audience were unfamiliar with the man who, more than any other, had bent modern music to his will...
Francis Greenwood Peabody, D.D., LL.D., Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus, died at his home in Cambridge on December 28 in the ninetieth year of his age. Having withdrawn from active academic life twenty-three years ago, Professor Peabody's long and distinguished service to the University is unfamiliar to its younger members, although until within the last few years his scholarly and literary activities had been continued, bearing fruit in a number of books and occasional writings of which his last important work was "The Apostle Paul and the Modern World," published in 1923. Of his earlier writings those...
Secretary Hull said that he had previously obtained assent from the steering committee for the Conference, by a suspension of the rules, to grasp its supreme opportunity of erecting the Pillars of Peace immediately. To observers unfamiliar with the workings of human nature on such occasions, the Conference seemed to rise in a tempest of aspiration toward Peace. At this moment, however, Mr. Oswaldo Aranha, who ordinarily resides in Washington, D. C. and who as the Ambassador of Brazil is a constant professional acquaintance of the Secretary of State, sprang to his feet. His unanswerable argument was that...
...TIME seems to imply, failure to put a duty on Brazil's babassu nut. Prime reason is compulsory pasteurization of milk in all major markets. Familiar is everyone with the cry of the orthodox medic that pasteurization kills disease bacteria which might be present in milk. Unfamiliar is the average person with the fact that lactic acid-producing bacteria normally present in milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city supply five days old on delivery. Thus, via the pasteurizer...