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Representative Bruce Barton, famed adman-into-politician who conceives that at present his most useful function is as articulator of his party's ideas, hung a national backdrop for Nominee Dewey with a speech about the New Deal's shortcomings and how Republicans would mend them. "The next national campaign," he key noted, "will not be fought between a liberal party and a reactionary party. There is no place in America for a reactionary party. The next national campaign will be between a Republican liberal party and a Democratic radical party...
...librettist, the late Hugo von Hofmannsthal, had turned out another grisly melodrama, a Freudian version of the Greek tragedy Elektra. In this second blood-curdler, the hag-ridden heroine danced gleefully while the dying screeches of her father's murderers floated from behind the backdrop...
...150th anniversary of the establishment of American civil government in the Northwest Territory at Marietta. Ohio, offered him an occasion, reeking with history, to hang a large historical backdrop behind the little political maneuvers of this trip. He did so with one of his analogies between the old frontier of ''new land, new game, new opportunity" and the F. D. R. frontier of social and economic security. Said...
...opening last week, President George Blumenthal of the Metropolitan solemnly thanked Mr. Rockefeller, and Park Commissioner Robert Moses pointed out his princeliness in buying eleven miles of Palisades across the river to keep the "backdrop" forever virginal. The good, grey donor, however, insisted that his contribution, "being largely financial," was "relatively unimportant...
Richard Wagner, unwitting backdrop-designer for Nazi heroics, wrote words as well as music for all his operas, created a revolution in stagecraft. Musically he influenced nearly every composer of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Inspired by the notions of ancient Greek dramatists, Wagner visioned a super-art in which music, the drama, the dance and painting were combined. For his music-dramas he created a whole new musical language in which tunes and chords (Leitmotive or "leading motives") represent ideas and personages. Events, motives, characters, situations are all identified by characteristic musical phrases. Their appearance...