Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...especially if held in the New Lecture Hall on a warm day in April, can easily kindle a stingaree of a riot. More important is the fact that a Convention will undoubtedly lead to every conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear on a ballot must be ready to except the consequence of losing by 50, 5, or 2 votes. An election cannot be repeated...
...revived by modern musicians on modern instruments, and, like many, had found the results flat as saltless soup. But as he studied the old scores, he began to see that they contained subtleties that could not be translated into present-day musical terms. Other old English scores confirmed his idea. Fired with enthusiasm, he began to collect viols, lutes, virginals and other old instruments, studied their construction and taught himself how to play them. Increasing fame as an authority brought him a seven-year engagement in 1902 with Boston's Chickering & Sons, for whom, he made clavichords, harpsichords...
...early part of the World War he has lived quietly in Haslemere, making his own instruments just as the 16th and 17th-Century craftsmen made theirs, piecing together bits of historical information on how they should be played, playing the old music, teaching others how to play it. The idea of artistic progress rouses Dolmetsch's fiery disdain. Says he in his time-resisting French accent: "There has been no improvement in any art, at any time, anywhere! There have been little changes-like in fashions-but you usually find that where you've gained something...
...France, where Art is for epicures, songs are likely to be skillful, titillating and sophisticated. But the Austro-German Lied is a miniature music-drama in which words, melody and accompaniment play equal parts. More important than the contour of its melody is the dramatic mood, or the metaphysical idea, that it expresses...
First speaker Dr. Bock cautioned the Yardling against going through the University with the idea of making more money afterwards, and said that the College's real offer was the learning of "a new way of living." It is the individual abilities and interests, he said, that are the real reasons for choosing a field of concentration...