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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation. Assuming that the chief works of Beethoven have stood the test of time, have retained their power to quicken and to exalt, and waiving the aspersions of those extremists who consider Beethoven "vieux jeu"--his achievements soon to be engulfed in the rising tide of "modernity"--let us indulge in, some reflections as to the reasons for the unshaken hold in public esteem which Beethoven as a character enjoys and for the reverent admiration his works still compel. We may frankly acknowledge that it is a puzzling matter to state in cold language why a work...
...civilization, especially as represented by America. Everyone should read and ponder Beethoven's life and career. His courage, sincerity, generosity, and unswerving devotion to his ideals of art and life cannot fail to supply that inspiration and tonic force which our industrial and financial age sadly lacks. Let us, therefore, enlarge somewhat upon the permanent quality in Beethoven's music, its emotional and spiritual power. So much emphasis today is laid upon science, book learning, research, behaviorism, and pedagogy, that the emotions are often entirely ignored. "But science," says Bertrand Russell, "is no substitute for virtue. The heart is quite...
...clowns were not what they were in my day, or even in yours, kind reader. Influenced by the last feeble, thwarting repercussions of the romatic movement they forgot their classic heritage; they forgot even to be funny; and they did the Black Bottom! I did not let my less critical roommate see my tears. He too, some day, will grow up and learn that we are but shadows in a shadow land, that even, even the clowns of today are. . . . . well, must...
...either side of the French stadium, the white wall of the amphitheatre is low enough to let the beholder see over it into the still-smoking battlefields, seen as from a high hill in geographically exact detail. Within the wall, which is divided into panels by inscribed monuments, stand leading representatives of the Allied Nations, grouped on shallow steps, with each nation's name engraved on a smooth tablet...