Word: learnt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allowed to practice. How many youngsters are ready to work as hard learning to draw? Yet drawing is as difficult and takes as long a training, and without it the painter is only the kind of practitioner that the doctor is who has but a fake degree. . . . Having learnt to draw, and then the relatively easier discipline of painting, let the artist express himself-if he can afford to wait so long...
...learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts...
...recent death means the end of a musical era, as well as a great loss to Columbia. He, and his contemporaries, Seidl, Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell for the center of the stage. Of all this illustrious company of conductors, Weingartner was perhaps...
...path. "The little fat one on the end will never make it. Wait till we get him down on Soldiers Field; will he sweat! Push-ups. Ha!" With a grunt of superior satisfaction Vag felt himself settling back into the well known channels of college life. He'd learnt something from his three years...
...same time there was a strong pacifist movement and many time there was a strong pacifist movement and large numbers of undergraduates signed declarations that in the event of war breaking out they would refuse to fight. This did not seem to be surprising. They had learnt that war settled nothing and they had seen for themselves that by reason of the last war life was in every way more difficult than it had been before; there was less wealth in the country, it was harder to get a job and the future was uncertain for all of them...