Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the election's over," he said, "I bear no malice or feel badly toward anyone, because the fellow who lost feels badly enough without being crowed over . . . This is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to a man. But this is a terrible responsibility and you must stand behind...
...first shock of Chen Yi's armies, Chiang made one more effort to rally his people around him. At a Kuomintang meeting in Nanking, Chiang cried: "Our war against the Communist rebels is a national war, a continuation of the war of resistance against the Japanese . . . We must be ready for a struggle of eight years or more against the Communists . . . The government is determined to fight on to victory...
...live long enough to complete works he has started. Sixteen years ago he completed two acts of an opera, Moses and Aaron, but, he says, "I have not yet found the mood and power to compose the third act." Inspiration, he explains, "comes as mysteriously as hunger-and must follow the digestion of a lot of other things. One has to wait until one is called upon...
Said optimistic Conductor Frederick: "This reception indicates that Schoenberg may become a popular composer." But Composer Schoenberg himself was more realistic: "I make a great difference between success and popularity. To become popular with serious music, one needs time. It must be heard oftener...
...have political stability without this recovery, and a chaotic France means, to a large extent, a chaotic Europe. But it is unlikely that de Gaulle can bring recovery back to France. His advent to power will only mean a further split in that country, and in Europe. The West must place its hopes with the socialist moderates who now hold shaky authority, and recognize that a de Gaulle government will be a damaging defeat for the free world...