Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even the most absolute dictator is susceptible to the influence of his surroundings. Nevertheless Herr Hitler's decisions, his calculations and his opportunism were his own. As Field Marshal Göring once said to me, 'When a decision has to be taken, none of us counts more than the stones on which we are standing. It is the Führer alone who decides.' If anything did count, it was the opinion of his mili tary advisers...
...general impression of this last talk with Field Marshal Göring was, in fact, that it constituted a final but forlorn effort on his part to detach Britain from the Poles...
...scheme or plan for the propagation of a doctrine or system of principles-Webster's New International Dictionary. * When Field Marshal von Blomberg, Minister of War, married his pretty secretary in January 1938, aristocratic General von Fritsch, Army Commander in Chief, protested strongly. When both were subsequently purged, the ranks of the conservative army group were cracked...
...ousted (at the beginning of the 19th Century) by the louder and more flexible modern piano, composers like Bach and Handel wrote sheaves of compositions for it. Even Beethoven turned out a batch of sonatas for the harpsichord. Today, harpsichord playing occupies the position that falconry does in the field of sports. And most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano. But today's handful of harpsichordists point out the undeniable fact that only they can make this 18th-Century music sound the way it did in the 18th Century...
Last month an international jury of artists* examined the 348 pictures Jack Nash had hung. Each judge had 15 stickers the first day and seven slips of paper the second, strolled through the galleries, licking, sticking, narrowing down the field for the final choices. Last week 5,000 well-dressed people surged up the Institute's broad marble stairs to open Pittsburgh's social season and the 37th International. They spent more time looking at each other than they did at the pictures. But all of them at least glanced at Georgia Jungle. Jack Nash, as usual...