Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norris Houghton has designed a perfect setting for melodrama, a mid-Victorian living room encrusted with gimcracks and statues, any one of which might inspire crime. But Stop-Over, after a good takeoff, gets bogged in its own dull subplots. Its chief actor, Blackmer, is left stranded with nothing to do but make wry cracks...
...play jazz. Symphonies are made to be played in concert halls for people who buy tickets to listen to them; the best jazz is made up on the spur of the moment, belongs in the jam session or the dance hall. Last week in Philadelphia's mid-Victorian Academy of Music, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, under platinum-blond Maestro Leopold Stokowski, jiggled and swayed, did their best to lose their educated musician's sense of discipline, tried embarrassingly to get hot. The result was pretty tepid, but not their fault. William Grant Still, Negro composer...
Most students agree that Victorian histories of art are as distorted as early maps which were drawn as if the earth were flat. A half century's discoveries in archeology, anthropology and the psychology of esthetics have demonstrated that the world of Art is round, big, and far more comprehensive than the area bounded by the Greeks at one end and grandfather's favorite engravings at the other. The remarkable History of Art of Elie Faure, who died fortnight ago, actually a long, interpretative essay, left still undone the work of writing a factual history of art from...
...Year, I nominate Surgeon General Thomas Parran, in recognition of his successful pioneer work in breaking down silly, Victorian public prejudice against a frank discussion of humanity's worst scourges, the venereal diseases...
...write a good ad." Last January Adman Peifer, 51 and hardworking, began writing institutional ads for the churches of Atlantic City, turning out swift-moving, unpretentious copy about people who play hooky from church, who set their children a bad example, who mistakenly consider churchgoing a mid-Victorian custom, who consider their salvation less important than the fact that it is too hot or too cold to go out on Sunday morning. Adman Peifer graduated to "Go-To-Church Editor'' when, in an ad attacking the pursuit of pleasure, he solicited names of anyone in need...