Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutch humiliation is nourished by British refusal to allow Netherlands marines to land in Java; by the "undeclared war" waged by Australian wharfside workers who refused, out of sympathy for the Indonesians, to load Indies-bound ships; and by a gradually growing realization that Dutch mistakes brought defeat and disaster...
Beecham is certainly the recognized authority in Mozart; only Bruno Walter is ever compared to him today. Koussevitzky's divergences from Beecham are emphatic; while Mozart's scores are not perfectly annotated and allow much leeway, he appears on several occasions to have violated the composer's instructions. Get the scores, compare recordings, and notice Koussevitizky's distortion of dynamic balance, listen carefully to his general phraseology...
...Morrison, leader of the House of Commons, declared: "We [Britons] haven't properly got used to [peace] and often have to think twice when an automobile in low gear makes a noise like a siren. . . . We still can't afford to light shop windows at night or allow electricity to be used for advertising signs...
...about time that you put a stop to the . . . odoriferous flatulence of the monomaniacal person who does your purported music criticism? It does not seem just and fair to permit a crank to vent this malignity time after time, especially concerning a subject which does not allow levity. Sarcasm, or the caprice of an ignorant and petulant fool. If your paper is governed by principles of decency and good writing, certainly there is no room for the sort of thing that we find in the most recent Music...
...small extent that he did understand them he called them principles-and on those he could never compromise. One of those principles, however hard of application, was Freedom. Another of those principles was that the end never justifies the means. And, putting those two principles together, he could never allow himself to say that it is justifiable to commit crimes in order to achieve for man a "larger freedom...