Word: inferiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director, "Let us at least open." Its Vienna success was instantaneous, and soon Paris, Berlin, London and New York were whistling the famous waltz. But the world never gave Lehar the serious reputation he thought he deserved. He wrote: "Most people are inclined to regard operettas as something inferior-entertaining no doubt, and full of easily remembered tunes-but distinctly lower in the scale than other musical works." His own more serious works-sonatas, symphonic poems, marches-did not catch the public's fancy...
...feel rejected or inferior chronically, with too little provocation...
...Budapest put up with him? Director Toth, who had long fought Hungary's indifference to its own composers, Bartok and Kodaly, was willing to fight for Klemperer too. Budapest's orchestras were far inferior to those of Vienna or Paris, and only a top conductor would bring them up again. If Budapest could only bear with Otto Klemperer, there was a good chance that it might get first-class music at last-the kind of music Berlin had heard, 15 years...
...sure. But what Mr. Danzig and most of his confreres apparently did not take into account was the fact that this was a real dyed-in-the-wool upset. It was not, as some would have it, the first exhibition of a superb, polished, brutal machine, squashing an inferior opponent. It was an example of what weeks of bruising work can do for blocking and tackling and a man's physical condition; it was an example of what is usually defined as "being up for a game...
...that the heredity of organisms is shaped by their environments. When applied to the evolution of man, said Muller, this doctrine means that "you would have to believe that colonial peoples, peoples who have not reached the development of the rest of the world, were doomed indefinitely to an inferior position." In short, said Muller, it is almost "Nazi genetics...