Word: employment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report of the Student Council Athletic Committee seems to me to employ the very methods calculated to frustrate its aims...
...persons whose taste in art, though they will never be artists themselves, will be of consequence in the creative expression of our time and the future. By "taste" I do not mean the knowledge of what it is permitted for a gentleman to admire, nor the ability to employ correct terminology in describing one's aesthetic experiences, but rather that synthesis of knowing, of intuition, of critical awareness, which becomes part of one's permanent equipment in dealing not only with aesthetic experience but with experience in general. Many teachers who have worked with young people during these later years...
...symphony orchestras employ unemployed musicians. But they seldom draw crowds or move their listeners to rafter-raising applause. An exception to this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen...
...which blackened his name for a century and a half. Therein Morris does more to clear his later reputation than others have managed to do for him. It is true that Louis XVI's ministers wore a trench to his door. "This Morning," runs a typical entry, "employ myself in preparing a Form of Government for this Country." He was mistaken in his methods, blinded by vanity and ignorance of the French common people. But Morris' Monarchist sympathies were far from enthusiastic...
...House dance committees--in a nice way, of course--that they are engaged in a game of blindman's buff, and that their current policy is as much a source of wonder to the undergraduate body as it is a source of undue profit to the orchestras they employ...