Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken out of school at the age of 14 and put to work and tried out at various vocations to discover what pleased me; and if I found I needed more book learning, then, and only then, I could return to the proper school to learn what I needed, instead of being filled with a lot of useless junk that the educational experts thought I should be filled with...
...Meaning: Hard Labor-An expletive used by Old Bolsheviks instead of Oh, Hell! *In the Greek Pantheon, Melpomene was the Muse of Tragedy...
Flunk in Theory. To his singers, he is a tough taskmaster who insists on clarity of line instead of overwhelming masses of sound. Says he: "It is the performer's business to get out of the way of the music." He picks his "varsity" choir first for knowledge of musical theory, then for ability to sight-read and lastly for voice. When most of his best singers flunked the theory test, he got his own teacher, Juilliard's Julius Herford, to teach them in one-night-a-week classes...
...they tend to obscure instead of illuminate the miracle of Christmas, it is not altogether for lack of trying. Behind the locked door of his Paris studio, 76-year-old Georges Rouault paints Christs as glowing and brittle as stained glass. They are done with devotion (Rouault is an ardent Catholic), but their deliberate crudity is almost as obvious a barrier to appreciation as the lock on his door. When British Sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned to carve a Madonna and Child for a church, he resolved to "meet the subject half way," as he put it, by substituting...
Made of unbreakable Vinylite, the Holt-Army records give four hours of instruction on 44 sides-against one hour and 52 minutes for its long-established competitor, Linguaphone. The Army's 1,200-word vocabulary is commonplace instead of cultural, concentrates on such workaday problems as ordering a meal, seeing the sights, locating the washroom...