Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second movement dated for the Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches of old Negro songs, of "Old Folks at Home," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Hail Columbia," "John Brown's Body," the "Battle Cry of Freedom," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." There is conflict then driving the music on to another loud climax. The theme again is "America" but it is mournful and bleeding now until the third movement, "1926," takes it up again and syncopates it. Then comes speed, prosperity. Man is the slave of machines...
...sanguinary act. What the French did to the Germans cries for vengeance and revenge. How fervently we must hate has been taught us by the French. This hate should be holy to us. It should be handed down as a legacy from generation to generation until that hour when freedom and the fulfillment of the Fatherland's aims have been attained...
...increasing freedom from old established customs and traditions, and the number of women now earning salaries promises radical changes in the life of our nation...
...freedom to pick over and weekout candidates for college entrance to advantage, but it can be easily abused. In a liberty of choice guaranteed by such a nebulous phrase as "high academic distinction and good moral character" lies the danger that it may be used to the benefit of a general type of student whose preponderance in the College might appear to insure a balance perhaps acceptable. But the injustice to the candidate is apparent, and the gain of Harvard in the too-liberal employment of selective right is doubtful...
Next day the Municipal Council of Frankfurt gave striking proof that in the new Socialist republic of Germany there is free speech and freedom of the stage. By a vote of 47 to 35 the Council rejected a motion ordering that the farce Marriages Are Made in Heaven should be closed by the police. Meanwhile the drama critics of leading Frankfurt dailies exhorted their readers against further throwing of bombs in the name of Goodness and Piety. True Christians, they pointed out, ought to follow the sublime and nonviolent example of Christ...