Word: hatefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schnabel had divided his score into conventional bars, but only as a concession to form. Said he: "I hate bars . . . [they] are like policemen's batons that strike down horribly, horribly. We must do away with them." He likes his melodies to "flow with no barriers, like the sea." He had composed his symphony ten years ago in the Swiss mountains, and likes to think of it as "glacial." But, he warned, "Do not try to understand it. Just feel...
...Belgian Surrealist Magritte is not always so sure of his own symbols: "You will notice that the egg plays an important part in my pictures. I do not know why. You will also notice a rose. I don't know why. Perhaps I shall discover later. Sometimes I hate symbols...
...years I have admired you from afar and have loved your little old magazine like a brother. But now I hate you, I hate you. My reason? Your report of the studies of one Professor N. Tinbergen (a likely name!) in re the procreative functions of sticklebacks [TIME...
This runaway conversation is reported in a book published this week, Children and Religion (Scribner; $2.50). Its author, Dora M. Chaplin, director of religious education at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Mass., cites it as an example of the kind of thing children hate-"the saccharine voice and the tense moments of imposed instruction." Instead, Author Chaplin recommends honest parental example and as little watering down of religious doctrine as possible...
Armies of people in the U.S. hate it with a consuming hatred. English writers and visitors from west of the Hudson are continually appalled by it; by its dirt, its tip-hungry doormen, its bigness, its gangs of savage street urchins, and the humid horror of its tropical summers. To Britain's Novelist J. B. Priestley, Broadway is "an angry carbuncle ... a thoroughfare in Hell where you take your choice between idiotic films . . . and shops crammed with schoolboy tricks." Jean-Paul Sartre, the high priest of France's Existentialism, spoke of "this desert of rock" and also complained...