Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did "declassed" mean? Answered Stravinsky: "To put somebody in a lower hierarchy." Said he: "When somebody feels himself a serious composer of classical music and suddenly is publicized as a jukebox composer-you know that hurt me." Furthermore, his use of the term "morally low" had nothing to do with personal morality; it just described how he felt when he found his music on the same shelf as that of the Cole Porters and Irving Berlins, fine fellows though they might...
...François Jaubert (Gerard Philipe), too young to take part in World War I, falls passionately in love with Marthe Grangier (Micheline Presle). The devil in François' flesh is more than adolescent sex; it is also a blind adolescent ego, full of the power to hurt. Half-man and half-child, François mockingly helps Marthe select the furniture for the home she is to share with her husband, who is fighting at the front. Then he moves in to help her use it. When Marthe refuses to continue writing to her husband, Fran...
When asked whether or not the hard times in Great Britain indicate the failure of socialism he replied that two wars, not socialism have hurt Britain...
...third, McInnis has been using Ernie Mannino, with Mort Dunn at shortstop. Mannino played shortstop under Samborski until he was hurt; Dunn started the 1948 season with the varsity, was demoted to the jayvees, and then moved up to the varsity again at the end of the schedule. He is faster and can cover more ground at shortstop than Mannino, although the latter is the better fielder...
...policy is an immense one. Provost Buck has certainly done well to stay ahead of his competitors in the past three years, to keep his books balanced, to make what economies he could within the Faculty; he is correct in raising tuition now if failing to do so would hurt instruction. But he has assumed a very definite responsibility to make good on advising, on expanded scholarships, on reviving tutorial, and on drastically revising such College institutions as have fallen out of date in the last decade. He and the Faculty members involved in this work must produce the goods...