Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scorns the 19th Century and its romantics-Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner-and latter-day romantics like Richard Strauss. He once insisted, in a heated moment, that "Music is powerless to express anything whatsoever." As for writing like a romantic, he says: "I cannot appeal to you as a person with my music; it would embarrass...
...minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory of Worship forbids a minister to marry a divorced person in less than a year after the divorce has been granted-and then only the innocent party...
...unaccountable slip-ups like Correspondent Mac Johnson's prearranged daily telephone call from his paper, the New York Herald Tribune. The call came through on schedule the first night of the insurrection and, with Dozier holding a candle for him to read by, Johnson got off a first-person account before the error was discovered...
...means of education ... We are all implicated in the decadence of our civilization, and it is only to the extent that our dull indifference is fused to a white heat of moral indignation and . . . activity that the future can have any promise of greatness . . . The person is the only ground in which a cultural renaissance can take place...
...Wallaceites have no inhibitions as to the sources of their support. Margolis accepts the aid of any person or organization willing to further the aims of the Wallace movement...