Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Records show that for Leonore's big aria, Komm Hoffnung, he tried 18 different attacks, ten for his concluding chorus. He wrote four overtures be fore he was satisfied, each seething with symphonic ideas. Handicaps were his lack of theatre technique, his stormy impatience with what seemed to be intrigue. In a revised version the opera had a more promising start. But after two performances, Beethoven felt that he was being cheated out of his rightful share of the receipts. He complained to the manager who suggested that his earnings might be greater if he would write more...
...Evalyn was growing up, and there was just no holding the girl. She was high-spirited, and that was a fact. Father chuckled and said she was a caution. They could not keep her in school, she did not seem to like school, but she got all the education money could buy. In Paris, for instance, the Walshes got clubby with Chicago's Mrs. Potter Palmer, and Evalyn was allowed to touch her stomacher. When they let Evalyn go abroad on her own to study French and art and music she had a wonderful time buying clothes and automobiles...
While most novelists attempt to develop character, few have realized how effectively the principal actor can tell about himself in the third person. Biographies, even though fictitious, seem to lack vitality and autobiographies, when the narrator is of little consequence in world affairs, are invariably priggish. Percy Marks has happily hit upon a working solution of this dilemma in "A Tree Grown Straight" and, incidentally, has written the best analysis of the problems of our generation...
...this type of aid. Such an arbitrary policy suggests the posibility that certain worthy individuals who get three B's and a C instead of a B average are being overlooked in favor of brain-merchants who are not so deserving in other ways. There are two factors which seem to indicate the desirability of granting scholarships to students in Group...
Consider the case of the man to whom hours spent in Widener seem more profitable than those passed in using the claborate equipment of the Indoor Athletic Building. Must he be taxed for the upkeep of facilities which he may never use? If a solution to the problem of support must be found, is it not far better to return to the former system of larger individual contributions by those participating in the athletic program, rather than subjecting the entire student body to the naive bureaucracy of the H. A. A. Ripley O. Jones...