Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piano, croaking and gesticulating at red-haired Soprano Herva Nelli, while a picture of Verdi stared at her from the piano's littered top. "Nelli," he pleaded, "please do use the expression on your face that you feel in the music. That will bring out the words and the music too." It was an old insistence of his. In rehearsal for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony he had stopped a soloist and asked him, "Do you know what you are singing about? You are singing of brotherhood, but in your face you look like you hate everyone. That will...
...apparent subjectivity of our individual processes ... It is a world alive and moving but which does not understand itself . . . Shaw is as difficult as Joyce, Mann as Kafka, if you really look into them. The difficulties arise . . . partly because of the conditions of society . . . The audience is able to bring less to the work of art than under the conditions of the old culture, and the artist is required to bring more . . . almost the whole job of culture has been dumped into the artist's hands . . . The burden of criticism in our time is ... to make bridges between...
...there was something wrong with all of them. They showed a "mechanization of human relationships," described themselves and their spouses as undemonstrative. There was, Dr. Kanner found, "no glamor of romance in premarital courtship, no impetuousness in postnuptial mating." He saw only one mother hug her child warmly and bring her face close to his; many of the busy fathers hardly knew their children...
...father of six, but overjoyed at the news. "Oh, my dear darling wife!" said he, "we haven't had one for ages. I love babies." Mamma, who had to run the household on 250 francs a month, said coldly: "So you're glad for me to bring another poor wretch into the world?" And Papa replied: "Of course I'm glad. It'll be a boy this time, he'll be born in 1900, beginning his life with a world's fair...
Ever since the Student Council became a popularly-elected body two years ago, the College's political idealists have been hovering anxiously around the ballot boxes, hoping to see democracy vindicated. The student vote would bring in topnotch men, the idealists ventured, and with a real mandate, these democratic Councils would do a better job than had their predecessors under the appointive system. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Not only has student interest in Council activities failed to show any appreciable upswing, but the voters themselves have exhibited a mighty disregard for the blessings of the secret ballot...