Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acquaintance with his works will corroborate the statement that Beethoven is first, an emotional composer, second, an artist of great dramatic power; and third, a man of fascinating humor, whose works have their being to intensify those never changing qualities in man--his basic emotions, love, joy, sorrow, his craving for the dramatic, for something to happen, and his instinct for what is humorous--for the incongruities and variety in the spectacle of life...
...gift of humor, just as important in art as in daily life. Beethoven never tears a passion to tatters, never protests too much, can be serious and truly impressive without becoming solemn or pontificial. Before Beethoven, music had been practically limited to the expression of joy and sorrow in a broad sense of these terms. With his inborn whimsicality and with his philosophy, akin to that of Shakspere, that nothing is more deadly than to take ourselves too seriously, Beethoven developed in music the spirit of fantastic humor...
...death Harvard has lost a devoted and efficient servant, and intercollegiate Athletic a faithful and valued friend. The Brown University Athletic Council therefore wishes formally to record its sorrow at his death and to express to his widow and his associates its sincerest sympathy...
...poor old fifth just sits there and sees into the future when his sons and his sons' sons will hear that joke; he looks back into the past and sees all his ancestors laughing at that joke. And he doubles up with the pain of the cumulative sorrow. "Why must", the words ring in the somber chambers of his brain, "why must a professor tell the same story for thirty years, a hundred years?" Titters in oblivion! And four out of five...
...knows, old John H.'s son is discovered hotly engaged in monkey business, for which tactics he is expelled from the Stock Exchange. He jumps out of an office window so high in the empyrean that he must have been antique when he reached the sidewalk. Thus, only sorrow dogs the successful manipulator. As for the unsuccessful, their troubles are indicated by frequent mention of "bucket shops." The play itself suffers from diffusion and repetition, though, like the stock market, it has its moments. The author, one James N. Rosenberg, is a bankruptcy lawyer...