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Where Sir George Grove in Grove IV was "certain" that Beethoven's romantic "attachments were all honorable," Grove V is more cautious, also concludes that "we need not expend much pity upon Beethoven the thwarted lover." Beethoven's cryptic answer when asked what the Appassionato Sonata meant ("Read Shakespeare's Tempest") is now interpreted as a flip: "Don't ask silly questions." Mendelssohn, who was the No. i darling of Grove IV, with 60 florid pages ("Few instances can be found in history of a man so amply gifted with every good quality of mind...
...Secondly, no country can afford to expend more than a certain amount of its money, manpower, materials and manu facturing capacity on armaments without wrecking its economy...
...first glance, these programs have been lost in the no-man's land between the federal government's desire to leave them to the states, and the states incapability of financing them. Actually, they have been sacrificed to the President's unwillingness to expend a little bit of his popularity to help the less privileged masses of the country. Most of these items, postponed the first year, have cropped up again in his second year's program. We have heard a good deal about the new, tougher approach the President plans to take toward Congress to get this program passed...
...Expended Potential. Such allegiance, says Ten Hoor, may be worthy, but "I must confess that I view all this indiscriminate altruism with a jaundiced eye. It does seem to me that these days there are too many leaders and too few followers; too many preachers and too few sinners-self-conscious sinners, that is ... Especially in a democracy, where everyone is more or less free to advocate schemes for the improvement of society, lively and self-confident minds are inclined to expend their intellectual and emotional potential on reform movements. The attention of the reformer is consequently drawn away from...
...these hulls came from, still others remained. Their toiling owners, in various stages of undress, from bathing suits to paint-sprayed dungarees, were busy with the sailor's shore duties of scraping, sanding and painting, and devoting more loving care to the job than most of them would expend on their cars or their homes...