Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...towering Otto Klemperer felt last spring that like Job he had been afflicted beyond reason, he must have been in good measure repaid when he walked on to the stage in the Los Angeles Auditorium last week and 5,000 Californians stood up to welcome him as conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Because he was a Jew, Conductor Klemperer was pommeled last spring by a band of Nazi youths...
...unpleasant. It is, however, typical of the official Harvard hypocritical pose on a number of matters. The same smug assumption of generosity characterizes the University's distribution of scholarships and jobs. The scholarships are the work of philanthropists most of whom have passed to their reward, and are beyond the reach of deserved thanks; student aid in the form of jobs comes mostly from the pockets of those who patronize the dining halls, but no one ever suggests recognizing them. Wreathed in benignant smiles this or that salaried official graciously accepts the gratitude of beneficiaries...
...country lose faith in money, there follows a rush to change currency into commodities-just such a panic as there was last March to change bank deposits into currency. Banks can be closed to conserve deposits, but there is no known control for paper panic. Prices soar beyond reason and the higher they go the more eager are people to spend before prices go still higher. Currency swiftly becomes a figment of a paper imagination. Owners of bonds, of bank deposits, of life insurance policies, of pensions find the value of their holdings reduced to microscopic size. Wages and salaries...
...love of the surgeon may, Pygmalion-like, make his work so exquisite and perfect that the great Jehovah will touch it into life, even as Venus made the marble Galatea into vibrant, palpitating life. The surgeon must, with fingers that are dexterous beyond compare and with mind that plans, see the completed result in his imagination. He models and commands the method, carries out the procedure, puts the parts into perfect apposition, but God knits the scar. "He sews severed arteries that they may carry their crimson torrent without leak and without hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced...
...shrewd mistress of a millionaire is riding high on the tidal wave. When Marc finishes school, he and his mother part-she to go to Rumania as companion in a rich family, he to sink or swim for himself in Paris. His Aunt Sylvie tempts him beyond his strength: for a while he joins her roistering household. But he soon has enough of it and goes back to semi-starvation and odd jobs. Annette. who has also had her troubles in Rumania, comes back to Paris and takes a job as secretary to a notorious gutter-journalist; rumor quickly calls...