Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred years ago, on his death bed, Ludwig van Beethoven whispered: "Applaud, friends, the comedy is finished." An immortal, it has been said, knows nothing of his immortality...
...century is nothing against the prophecy of genius. But the fact that time witnesses his ever-ascending influence is significant. Musicians set aside a week in which the whole world might applaud-not the finish but only .the prologue of the divine comedy. In 275 U. S. cities, whatever music was sounded, poured forth as a testimonial...
...guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity: "I have always said my work was superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory criticism, recall his wife's remark: "You may say what you like about his music, but if you don't praise his handwriting he will be cross with you." Many of these people curl...
...tomorrow cannot be helped. It is not quite accurate to call the author unknown. Some of the men he names by name survived-piano-playing Larry Callahan of Chicago, for example; Violinist Albert Spalding; one-armed Alan Winslow; husky Dr. "Hash" Gile of Princeton and New York. They will applaud the terse descriptions of air action, heavily salted with realism and cynicism. They will admire Clayton Knight's sketches of havoc-ridden skies. They will remember the writer as they remember other men in his pages-big "Ros" Fuller, Clarence Fry, John Goad, "Hobey" Baker, "Micky" Mannock, superb Major...
...think any decent person will applaud your recommending such an utterly baseless book as "Jesus: A Myth"? I should turn that title into an exclamation about the book itself! I've read "Her Son's Wife" and "A Manifest Destiny" too, and honest, I simply can't see how your minds work to think these are "good books." Just out of curiosity I think I'll try a couple of others, shutting my eyes to choose. I predict not one in three is any good, but it so happens I now have time to waste...