Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bleu, Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov; revived Gluck's Orfeo and Armide, Weber's Euryanthe. His feats of memory have become legend. Never has he been seen to use a score. In his head are over 100 operas, in addition to an enormous concert repertoire. When the jealous ask, "Why does he not use a score?" they answer themselves "Bravado." It is not bravado. Toscanini is so nearsighted that he cannot read a note that is more than half a foot under his nose. Long before ever his great night in Rio de Janeiro, he scraped...
...throw mud at Harvard; she is the most internationally respected of American universities, the University with perhaps the finest academic standards in the United States today. We admire and love her--but we must be jealous of her spirit. And it is flagging...
Said the Acting Dean of a great cathedral: "War cannot go until the sweatshop goes. War cannot go until the opium dens and bucketshops go; war cannot go until the fevered cruelty of much business competition goes . . . until churches learn to tolerate each other without jealous rivalry. . . . The seed of war lies in the soil of the soul...
With the France-Belgian treaty as a base, M. Hymans, Belgian Foreign Minister, suggests incorporation of England, making the alliance a three-cornered one. Behind the figure of M. Hymans stands the energizing force of France, eager, even anxious, to perpetuate the old Entente. Always jealous of foreign influence over Belgium. England has viewed the Franco-Belgian alliance with suspicion. Haunting memories of Louis XIV persist like Marley's ghost. Since the new head of the Foreign Office, Austen Chamberlain, is said to favor such a Triple Entente, the proposal is opportune, and naturally emanates from Belgium...
...critics are also authors and that the creation of an intelligent reading public, which is the critic's function, is no less essential than the creation of good literature, which is the sphere of the author. But this is really too much to expect of the most temperamental and jealous of all the professions...