Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What nettled the doyen of British critics most was a performance of Rossini's Semiramide Overture by the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir John Barbirolli. "No really musical person," groused Newman, "would leave his comfortable home . . . specifically to hear this . . . But bring, at great expense, a German orchestra all the way from Berlin to play this negligible bit of Italian music in the capital of Scotland, and an English conductor all the way from Manchester to conduct it, and apparently it becomes, by some magical transformation . . . a 'festival' work and we trudge all the way to Edinburgh...
Even more, he loved to make money-and hang on to it. According to one story, he once invited Parisian celebrities to a post-premiere feast at Larue's, ordered the finest food and wines. When the assemblage had cheered him, he had the waiter bring each guest a separate check...
...been," writes Trevelyan, "not an original but a traditional kind of historian." Unlike Arnold Toynbee, he saw no pattern in the past, evolved no sweeping philosophy of history. "Philosophy must be brought to history, it cannot be extracted from it. And I have no philosophy of my own to bring, beyond a love of things good and a hatred of things evil...
...widening gulf between Protestants and Catholics has become an important national issue." With these words, the current American Mercury introduced a hammer & tongs Protestant-Catholic debate to bring the points of antagonism between the two faiths "into the open for public examination...
...sole trustee, Gray sometimes takes extraordinary measures to insure something of the free discussion that competing newspapers would bring to Winston-Salem. A moderate drinker himself, Gray favors the legalization of liquor sales in dry Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Santford Martin, 63, the Journal's tall, pink-cheeked editor, is a lifelong teetotaler and editorial crusader for prohibition. Last June, when the county decided to vote on whether to repeal prohibition, wet Publisher Gray and dry Editor Martin found themselves at odds about Journal policy. Gray decided to run pro-repeal editorials (by associate editors) in both papers...