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...Depression times, even lavish Manhattan publishers had no use for a non-commercial author. Alec had to take his family to live with his in-laws, narrow middle-class people in a narrow middle-class New Jersey suburb. He quickly found that the sacrifice of his talent and a willingness to work at anything were not sufficient qualifications. At last he got work as a farmhand. He was not very good at it, worked with a chip on his shoulder that eventually lost him the job. Then he took anything he could get: cutting down trees, playing the piano...
...whose teaching capacities are admittedly of the highest caliber and promise? Does the University adapt departmental budgets to meet the shifts in demand for various fields that occur from time to time? Is the system of hiring and firing really keeping at Harvard the most promising men, or is talent thrown to the winds merely because no openings can be found for capable instructors, despite the fact that their immediate services are vital to the University...
...only fitting in a musical comedy, the story is built to fit the songs and dances and achieves just the proper melodramatic touch in doing so. The elder Strauss, his waltzes on the lips of all Europe, is jealous of his son who shows a talent equal to his own, even if in a style abhorrent to the father. He thwarts his son's ambitions to lead an orchestra and play the waltzes he fears may become more popular than his own. But he is in good turn himself thwarted in his machinations, by nothing less than the intrigues...
...years most of the founding Independents were recognized as U. S. classics, but as public appreciation of art increased the Independents' show lost practically all excuse for existence. The business of discovering artistic talent has become highly organized. Not a single first-rate critic bothered to write a serious review of the Independents' show last week. Newspaper humorists, who flocked to it, privately divided the exhibitors into three groups: successful veteran painters who continue to show with the Independents for auld lang syne; harmless amateurs; nuts...
...facilities. Receiving no credit for courses and ineligible for any degree, they devote their whole time to productive scholarship and independent research. The Society is designed to meet the problem of associating future creative scholars in a distinct body that will have an attraction for ambitious young men of talent...