Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prophet of things-as-they-should-be but an analyst of things-as-they-are. He gave no answers, put many a stumping question. No one was ever quite sure just what Veblen himself believed. Biographer Dorfman hazards no opinion, concludes that "the question as to the exact nature of his influence remains still to be answered." A week before his death, in a little shack in Palo Alto, he penciled a typical testament: "It is ... my wish . . . that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that no tombstone, slab...
From the pit the Philadelphia players gave the score all its eloquence. Conductor Fritz Reiner is a masterful Strauss conductor. His clean direct beat kept the framework exact but he brought out all Strauss's slyness, curved the melodies so that their beauty was bewitching. Said Critic Lawrence Oilman in the New York Herald Tribune: "There has not been heard in this country such an exfoliation of the beauty and the riant comedy of Strauss's irresistible score...
During the centuries there have been countless attempts to define an artist. In modern times many naive men, considering the scientist to be of more importance, have tried to define him--with equally little success. The artist and scientist continue in opposition, yet their exact character remains undetermined...
...months men have been working to get all in readiness for the big moment; installers have fitted out the modern equipment in the new central telephone building; new machines have been universally substituted for old; new directories have been prepared and held in readiness for the exact time of release...
...Exact reports of production, prices, wages employment and general economic conditions...