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...busy life is tempered with Christian humility. "I cannot say that I have always been a servant of exceptional faithfulness," he writes, "nor can I say that in my role of bishop my decisions have always been unquestionably right. I may perhaps have made some hearts richer, some minds clearer, and inspired some to more noble prompting, and if so, I am indeed happy...
...drivers stampeded from the gas-filled hall, cops laid about them with clubs and rifle butts. Two drivers were trampled to death, 23 others badly injured. While the wounded were piled into waiting ambulances, 366 drivers were carted off to join their brothers in jail. Cooler and clearer heads soon prevailed. Spokesmen for the strikers promised that they would go peacefully back to work; the arrested drivers were released on probation. At week's end, the cabs had reappeared, but the cabbies had as many grievances as ever. The row between the old and the new Settled down...
This brings into focus clearer than ever the question of What should be the relation between private and public companies. Each group is very vociferous in defending its side of the problem...
...theology. He began to enjoy himself hugely. Strasbourg's faculty was young and stimulating, his work was rewarding, and he had already begun lessons with the famed French organist, Charles Marie Widor. But Schweitzer's thoughtful happiness also carried with it some pain. "It became steadily clearer to me," he has written, "that I had not the inward right to take as a matter of course my happy youth, my good health, and my power of work. Out of the depths of my feeling of happiness there grew up gradually within me an understanding . . . that . . . whosoever is spared...
Koussevitzky's interpretation of the Ninth made clearer and even more awesome the strake simplicity of Beethoven's music. The opening bars of the first movement, just simple open fifths descending in the strings, were built up inexorably to the first statement of the theme by the whole orchestra in unison. It is a simple dominant-tonic progression, the first thing taught in an elementary harmony course. Simple means indeed, but nothing more overpowering has even been written...