Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maintain in these sad days the firm belief that the objective of the trial will show that everything which my dear comrade and helper did was dictated solely by glowing unselfish love for the Fatherland-and I assume the same motives inspire his present opponents, for I strive to be just to all sides...
Music written to Shakespeare affords interesting observation. Most of it is not so good, and very few pieces rise to the remotest inkling of the grandeurs of the original. Especially is this true of the Shakesperian plays made into operas. Both librettos and music are sad mirrorings. Verdi's Otello and Falstaff, with their scholarly librettos by Boito are the only operatic compositions that ascend within sight of Shakespeare. They are not faithful to the poet in spirit-they sober down his great madness, adding to it a classical and austere elegance of form...
...compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there are no non-injurious preventive methods. Some physicians testified to the contrary. The clinic project is supported by many wealthy and socially prominent persons. It will not be set up till all legal barriers...
...composed when one considers the dirge of President Butler of Columbia sung over the degeneracy of modern education and statesmanship since the superior Victorian age. It is certainly true that there have never been more educated "down and outers" than at present. But it seems somewhat doubtful that these sad specimens are due wholly to modern degeneracy, as Dr. Butler seems to infer...
...final play, "Le Bonhomme Jadis", by Henry Murger is half sad, half humorous. It tells the story of old Jadis, who finds his youth again in the love of a young couple...