Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parker '98, music critic, in a review of the same performance, speaking of the immense amount of preparation involved, said. "In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper pursue such endless and exacting toll. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. . . .Self expression and release are the better words with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...
...makes the mind welcome her strangest comings as foreseen returns; the second is wonder, which sets men to question their own delight and to scrutinize that fabled face as a thing holy and remote. These tendencies follow no order of precedence. Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract as algebraic ellipses; later, yielding to a subtle warmth, their rapt, expressionless madonnas began softly to smile...
...Edwin Arlington Robinson, whom many critics have laureled as America's most formidable poet, rarely permits himself such lyricism as that and when he does, it is with a strangely deprecating air. There is a bleakness in his blood, commonly supposed to be the temper of New England...
...temper would unhinge...
...wife bears the burden. Every evening when he comes home from dispensing everywhere the cheer that wins votes, he takes his temper out for exercise. Hovering in the background is the silent, honest worker who worships the wife in purity and quiet...