Word: compromise
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"A modernist? But no, I am not a modernist. That is a debauched term (mot compromisé). The modernists set out to shock the bourgeoisie, and they only succeed in pleasing the Bolsheviki. My music is neither 'futurist' nor 'passéist,' but the music of...
Compromis is an excellent and necessary thing in the ordinary work of legislation. In an issue like the present each side is fain to consider a compromise as a compromise with the devil. The only thing the would make Senator Lodge desert the American flag is the voce of the people. Only the voce of the people can turn Senator Hitchcock from the cause of humanity. But the voice of the people says to each of these men different things...
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