Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around. At a rehearsal of his all-Debussy concert a month ago, he was flushed with a fever of 102 degrees. His friends tried to persuade the old man not to conduct, but he was insistent. Said he, as he trudged out to the podium: "Sometimes I must act like Toscanini...
...From Hamlet's famous advice to the players: ". . . Do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness...
...ever justified? Yes, says the commission, when it is undertaken: 1) to redress a grave injury committed by another state; 2) to defend one's country against attack; 3) to help a belligerent "whose cause . . . [one] believes to be just." But, the report adds, war must be waged with a right intention-"the establishment of peace founded in justice...
...commission bowed to the ancient doctrine of "military necessity." If a nation which renounced The Bomb would be helpless before an enemy that did not, "then retention of the atomic bomb in a nation's armory is justifiable on the ground of necessity and indeed . . . obligatory. We must add that it might well prove to be a powerful deterrent also...
Christian Conscience. But a Christian at war must look sharply and often to his conscience. "The tendency of a conflict to change its character as it proceeds, and of a nation at war to deteriorate progressively in outlook and conduct, must always be of grave concern to Christians, on account of the ethical dilemmas that arise when what began as a 'just' war comes to assume a more dubious countenance . . . We would therefore emphasize the duty that is laid upon Christians of refusing to participate in any act of war which they are morally certain is wrong...