Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Camargo is convinced, however, that the Amazon cannot thrive on rubber alone. Farmers must live during the seven years that their rubber plantations are growing to bearing age. He believes they must devote permanently at least 40% of their land to other crops. He has already found one other successful crop: jute...
Stravinsky likes to see movies, particularly Westerns ("Just the shooting of the guns and the simple plot") and the "picture comique." But he refuses to write music for them.* In a voice like a bass trombone with the slide all the way out, he says grandly: "I cannot submit myself to their rules and laws. Practical restrictions I have always welcomed; psychological restrictions, no! They say to me, 'Create atmosphere.' Comment? Create atmosphere! How can one? I am ashamed. I blush. I am absolutely incompetent to create atmosphere. I say to them, 'You must create the atmosphere...
There are two doors between his workroom and the light, airy, modern living room. "When both doors are closed, no one may enter," says Vera Stravinsky. "When only the workroom door itself is closed, I may enter, but only I." The room is soundproofed. Says Stravinsky: "I cannot work where I can be overheard...
...anything he dislikes more than editorial conductors, it is critics. Says Stravinsky: "They must be as competent as I, to be able to criticize my aim.* They are not ripe enough to judge. I am too sure of what I am doing. I am not perfection but they cannot know...
...Education cannot do everything . . . It seems altogether likely that the attempt on the part of education to do what it cannot do well will prevent it from doing what it can do well. One of the things education cannot do well is vocational training. That can best be conducted...