Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strongly convinced that the intellectual demoralization of post war America takes its origin to a considerable extent in the actions of those intellectual leaders who beat the war drums of that earlier period
...best fighters in the world. The German race is the greatest of our civilization. Compare them with the English and you'll find that in art, in war strategy, in every occupation Germans are superior. I believe Shakespeare himself was of German origin, was he not? Correct me on this. I would like to know...
...hell am I to say all this? Well, I'll tell you. I'm an American of German origin. Like Hitler I'm a poet, and no editor pays any attention to my manuscripts. But I'm German enough to keep at it until I've had my say and then I'll quit...
...door. Any other group, whether left or right, harmless or vicious, would have met with the same refusal. But the mere fact that an "unwritten law" should crack down particularly on the more politically minded members of the university gives it an unsavory aura. No matter what the origin of this law, no matter what the original purpose, its present function is dangerous. It has almost become a stop-gap to the flow of ideas...
Both the scherzo, which is the offspring of the minuet, and the variation form can be traced back to the very origin of instrumental forms in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The combination of popular dances-minuets, sarabandes, allemandes,--represents the first attempt to write instrumental pieces involving more than one section, the germ of all later large forms...