Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hindemith believes that composers are generally the best teachers of composition. "If you want to know how to design a bridge, you get an engineer to tell you." More than this, he thinks that composers should teach, not only as a means of support, but as a responsibility to future generations of musicians. "Since Bach," he says, "hardly any of the great composers have been outstanding teachers. Today, when there is a general lack of skill in the technique of composition, no composer should withdraw from teaching...
While the collection has omitted some of Grosz's best work, including most of his vitriolic satires of decadent German society after World War I, it is excellent as far as it goes...
...years Mississippi Novelist William Faulkner has published 18 books. Some of them (The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Intruder in the Dust) are among the best in 20th Century U.S. fiction; others, as might be expected from a man producing at Faulkner's rate, are inferior and slapdash. In the latter group is Knight's Gambit, a collection of six stories (a couple of them written for the Satevepost) more or less conforming to detective-story formulas...
...accepting the gift, Provost Buck indicated a belief that "Management now realizes it can best serve the cause of private education as a free enterprise, if it provides free funds without attaching limiting restrictions...
Such a revision could best be carried out by transferring the jurisdiction over language requirements to the individual departments. By allowing them to set departmental requirements, the difficulties in the present college-wide system would be avoided. Whereas some students would acquire a broader and more useful language background than is now mandatory under the present system, others could better use their time taking general education courses...