Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foremost figures on the French musical horizon. As a youth, with the vision of youth, he recognized the genius of Wagnerian music when it was generally condemned in France. He attached himself to Cesar Franck, greatest of recent composers, and remained loyal to his master throughout his bitter struggle to reform French taste and introduce the new musical standards. His reward has come in seeing Wagner and Franck justified, France raised to a high place in the musical world, and himself made leader of one of her two greatest musical institutions. With Saint-Saens, his senior, he has built...
City politics in Boston have from time immemorial been marked by mud-slinging and questionable tactics. For years, the few weeks preceding the election of a mayor were filled with bitter campaigning, of which no good citizen could well be proud. Cliques and gangs fought hard among themselves, and when all was over, the string of vituperation rankled on both sides. In latter days, these crude and unskillful methods have been discarded perhaps for those of a subtler and more effective nature; and the advent of cleaner, less personal contests seemed to be in sight...
...unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight...
...first of these texts is a denunciation: the second is a promise. The statements, however, are only two different aspects of a single truth. No one thinks that he is himself putting darkness for light, evil for good, or bitter for sweet; but every one is sure that some other people are doing so, and, at the present time, that many people are doing it in a very exaggerated and dangerous way. Great numbers of good men and women are seriously alarmed today at ideas that are being propagated and they think that by shutting their own ears...
...true that the war came because the people of Germany in their opinions put evil for good, darkness for light and bitter for sweet, then we can only say of the calamities that have come upon their country as Lincoln said of the woes of the Civil War, "True and just are thy judgements altogether." We can add with him. "Let us judge not that we be not judged"; or rather let us beware that by harboring in our minds unsound opinions we fall not into like condemnation...