Word: talks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...authority on German thought and history, who will speak on "What the Nazi Revolution Means"; John K. Fairbank '29, who has spent four studying the contemporary scene in China, on, "America Faces the Future in the Far East"; and William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, who will talk on "Problems in the Balkans...
...Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration whose subject will be, "Can American Democracy Survive?"; Alvin H. Hansen, also of the Busness School, who will speak on "The Impact of Totalitarian Victory on the American Economy"; and Dumas Malone, director of the University Press, who will deliver a talk on "Foreign Dangers and American Unity...
...same feeling that it had always left, namely that the ballet as exhibited nowadays in the various Ballets Russes is an anachronistic artificial genre, without roots in the life or culture of the people, and totally lacking in appeal to a twentieth-century citizen. Perhaps it is impertinent to talk about ballet in a column devoted to music. But since music frames ballet just as it does opera, I think it fair to discuss ballet in relation to society as a whole...
When it comes to a question of discovering tastes, more than a casual sales talk is necessary, so the shops have adopted their clubby atmosphere. A couple of comfortable chairs, a radio, and an engaging personality at the head of the sales force will sell more custom suits than the pressure of the more conservative stores. The salesman is such an integral part of the organization that when one changed stores a few months ago, his clientele went along with him. And when another was in the hospital for twelve weeks, his store sold three suits instead of the usual...
...years Tacoma citizens dreamed of a bridge across the Narrows. It would cut out the old, slow ferry, bring the Navy Yard at Bremerton closer. It would help accomplish what Washingtonians talk of doing-open up the spectacular, thinly settled Olympic Peninsula. Last July Tacoma got its bridge-a slender, soaring suspension bridge,* rising 190 feet above the water, built in two years at a cost of $6,400,000 in Federal funds...