Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...democracies have a little more marrow in their bones since Munich. French and British defense-and hence morale-have distinctly improved. Mr. Roosevelt's tough talk against the dictatorships has helped. It was even possible to construe in Herr Hitler's statement that Germany must "export or die" an invitation to commerce rather than war. Typical French move was a conference of high French Generals in Tunisia at which General Auguste Nogues, Resident General and Commander-in-Chief of all French Armed Forces in Morocco, presided...
...fraction of the concessions from Britain that Saint Gandhi's torturing fasts have. But last week's fast was more serious than previous ones because Saint Gandhi's blood pressure was higher than it ever had been before and he was consequently more likely to die than ever before...
...Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Tiana Lemnitz. Erna Berger, Helge Roswaenge, Gerhard Hüsch and other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to present-day audiences. But the music is some of the most beautiful Mozart wrote. Its first complete recording, less perfectly tooled but more spectacular than the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni (TIME, Oct. 3), is the record of the month...
Satie: Gymnopédie Nos. I & 2. (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting: Victor). French musical impressionism had three inventors: Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Ernest Fanelli. Today only Debussy is remembered as a front ranker. But these two little pieces, orchestrated by Debussy, are as deft and fresh as Seurat water colors...
Here, then, are the two conflicting theories. There is no way at the present time of foreseeing which one is the correct course, nor in the future, either, for the die will have been cast, and there is no telling where the other course would have led. Unfortunately there is no set dogma from which one can choose the proper course; it remains for the President, Congress, or public opinion quite arbitrarily to decide...