Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world. And for this relief much thanks from 95% of the American people but-from the leaders, guides and scouts of the old road to ruin -what? Strident clamoring-a few little men with loud voices, frantically waving many puny red flags of false and futile warning in the path of the resistless advance of a great people-125,000,000 strong-united by suffering in a common purpose, by mutual sacrifice and cooperation and under the inspiring leadership of a great captain of humanity, to march out of the deep, dark valley of death and despond, into the sunshine...
...searching, rings the gong twice when he asserts that German Protestantism ran up against two inflexible tenets of Naziism: the elevation of nationalism above everything, and the sanctification of the German nordics ueber allies. That is true, quite true, but the antagonism is more deeply laid than that The path of Protestantism in Hitler's land is in close parallel with the fate of Christianity in Russia. No religion espousing spiritual individualism and political liberalism can hope to stand against the rush of the Religion of the State. At every turn, if it is true to itself, it will clash...
...psychology to each other, of sociology to any of these. Let those who wish to explore the small obscurities of the past do so, but do not discourage a man from taking a large field and discovering now interpretations of it, or from striking out on some entirely original path of his own choosing. For whatever work he chooses to embark on, the student would be assigned perhaps two advisers or tutors, from one or more fields. The board of doctoral examiners would be composed differently for each candidate, with representatives from various departments, so that the whole range...
...Yorkers who went to Town Hall Monday night thought for a moment that they were being fooled. Programs told them that they would hear a Bach Prelude, the Chromatic Fantasio and Fugue, Beethoven's Pathétique sonata, Mendelssohn's Rondo Capricioso, six Chopin pieces. On the stage was a grand piano with a man-sized keyboard and to play it there appeared a chubby little girl who, if she had not been so self-possessed, would have looked as if she had wandered there by mistake on the way home from a children's party...
...when she had flipped up her dress, wriggled up on the stool and stretched down for the pedals, the audience knew that it had not been fooled at all. Her hands could barely span an octave but they sounded chords which were rich and strong. Beethoven's Pathétique needed more sweep than she could give it. Once in the Bach her right hand was not quite sure what her left hand was doing. But in the Mendelssohn and Chopin her fingers traveled over the keys with such speed and accuracy that the audience rushed forward...