Word: freakishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Antheil branded himself seven years ago as the most freakish of U. S. composers. He grew up in Trenton, N. J., went to Paris to live when he was 20. After six years he celebrated his homecoming by putting on in Manhattan his Ballet Mecanique with ten pianos, wind machines, an airplane propeller, assorted horns, whistles and bells. The critics' jeers drove him back to Paris. Lately he claimed that he had reformed. Helen Retires was to illustrate his conversion to melody. But basically most of its music seemed just as empty as his percussive ballet. The student...
...dusty horn of wind sweeps in from the darkened horizon. On its first showing in an exhibition arranged by jovial William Allen White, onetime Governor Henry J. Allen's wife deplored: "Cyclones . . . are certainly to be found in Kansas, but why must Mr. Curry paint these freakish subjects? His self-portrait shows . . . a boyhood that has only seen the most sordid conditions of life...
...tradition demands, Glovemaker Collett, though elected last week, will not assume office until Lord Mayor's Day, Nov. 9, must spend at least ?3,000 to please the London populace by staging that pompous, freakish annual pageant, "The Lord Mayor's Show," plus ?3,000 for the Lord Mayor's banquet. Paid an annual salary and allowance of ?50,000, the Lord Mayor of London normally spends some ?30,000 of it on civic entertainment during his year in office...
...bunch of pigs that he can show at the coming autumn fairs, or even the Century of Progress, and this will produce in him a mental shift and give him so much care he will never allow that unruly tongue of his to betray ignorance. This may be freakish, but it goes. JENNIE MINERVA MILLS CONRAD Conrad Ranch Conrad...
...giant cornucopia of wind marches across the darkened prairie. Said Elsie J. Nuzman Allen, art-collecting wife of Kansas' onetime Governor Henry Justin Allen: ". . . Cyclones, gospel trains, the medicine man, the man hunt, are certainly to be found in Kansas but why must Mr. Curry paint these freakish subjects? His self-portrait shows . . . a boyhood that has only seen the most sordid conditions of life . . . [not] the glories of his home State, the beauties of the simple life of the farmers. I wonder whether this is not just a phase through which he will pass and will soon come...