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...mahogany-colored buck who in one dance wore rainbow-hued feather knickers, and "Pearl of Nassau," a gaudy little darkie who lustily copies the seductive hip-wiggling of Josephine Baker. Attired in scanty draperies and usually accompanied by gourds or tom-tom alone, the Bahama troupe shifted abruptly from sober interpretations of spirituals to the frankly orgiastic frenzy of native Bahaman dances. Against the high yellow paling which divided them from the orchestra their shadows were enormous and fantastic. But in spite of claims that their dances were independent of Harlem influence, the Bahaman dancers displayed merely conventional abandon, little...
...since 1929 he has spent most of his spare time in New York studying orchestra scores, watching Toscanini and others conducting the Philharmonic-Symphony. Says Jose Iturbi: "I am like Diogenes. All my life I search for an honest musician. I find Arturo Toscanini." His face, always set and sober during recitals, was more so than ever while he conducted Toscanini's orchestra. Afterwards, to a group of friends who congratulated him he remarked simply: "It was like first love. There was nothing more to live...
...shallow scoff at the outpourings of these pessimists; the thoughtful are challenged to sober reflection. History, especially current history--witness Russia, and Central Europe for example--is weighted heavily in favor of the pessimist. What can education say in answer? Nothing with certainty, that is, nothing which the pessimist, can not overwhelm with contradictory evidence. The pessimist looks into the past and is fortified, the educator in the final analysis must rest his case on the future and the hope that history need not always repeat itself. Suppose then, that the pessimist convinces the world that he is right--what...
...candidate as First Evangelical Bishop of the Reich. Picked by the Hitlerites to unify and co-ordinate Germany's Protestant sects was a Rev. Dr. Ludwig Müller. army chaplain and leader of a Nazi organization known as the "German Christians." Despite arguments, pleas and threats, the sober, elderly delegates to the Landes-kirchen stubbornly refused to vote for him, chose as their leader patriarchal Rev. Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. known throughout Germany as "The Abbot of Bethel" for his management of Bethel Institute, famed charitable organization founded by his father...
...made few and brief appearances in public. Around such academic figures there always spring up apocryphal tales. After a better-than-ordinary dinner Housman is reported to have made this speech: "Cambridge has seen some strange sights. It has seen the poet Wordsworth drunk, and the philosopher Person sober. Tonight it sees a better poet than Person and a better philosopher than Wordsworth, neither drunk nor sober, but just betwixt-and-between...