Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater on Broadway and de-emphasizing the "star system." This would probably require government subsidy of a revolving chain of professional repertory groups strung across the country. The United States is the only major country that does not today subsidize the arts, and there is currently a movement afoot to have President Truman create a new cabinet post--Secretary of Fine Arts. Surely a capitalistic democracy has a need for artists...
When you hear a movement from one of these works, the performer generally uses it as a vehicle to show you how accomplished he is. And almost every movement is breath-taking since it requires the violinist to carry two, or (at times) three parts simultancously. But Schneider has resisted the temptation to put himself before the music. As he explains in his program notes, "I believe the most important aim of the performer is to articulate the melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal lines as clearly as possible, and not to become too involved in the technical difficulties of emphasizing...
...until last winter, when Harry Truman noticed that the movement of crowds in the Blue Room made the crystal chandelier jingle ominously, that any really thoroughgoing inspection was made. Then horrified engineers found the second floor beams so weakened that they limited the occupancy of the presidential study to 15 at a time. engineers' study has Since then the turned up dozens of other weaknesses...
They tend to concentrate on a few courses: Merk's History 162--the Westward Movement in the U. S.--has attracted probably the largest number. Merk, whose course consistently wins "most important single item" votes from Niemans, sees their value to the University in a broader sense: "Their contribution to Harvard is their contact with undergraduates, who meet imaginative and live people doing reporting...
MENNINGER ARTICLE IS OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO MENTAL HYGIENE MOVEMENT. CONGRATULATIONS...