Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Testimony for the Testament...
...Chorus was the joy of the evening, especially the soprano, singing with considerable excellence in the Andante Maestoso and the final Prestissimo sections. Only the Chorus adumbrated some sense of the Oppolinian sweep and profundity of Beethoven's greatst testament...
Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid may be the last of Lowry's incomplete works to be published, unless Mrs. Lowry squeezes the manuscripts for another "find." And of the lot, Under the Volcano remains the only major testament to Lowry's right to a place among the finest writers of the century. Despite his remarkable talent at self-portrayals, Lowry's power derives almost solely from the infernal torture of one two-year period in his life which he somehow survived. In the end, his contribution may come down simply to the fact that...
...condemned it as "a new form of slavery." While Thoreau figured that "the more money, the less virtue," Schopenhauer argued that "money alone is absolutely good" and Samuel Johnson declared: "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." The New Testament holds that love of money is the root of all evil, but Mark Twain reversed that adage into "lack of money is the root of all evil." Socrates said: "Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money." Gertrude Stein remarked: "As a cousin of mine once said...
...capture both its gaiety and its unreality. Certainly he knew that his own gifts were fleeting. For the last ten years of his life, he knew he had tuberculosis. Gilles, painted just a year before he died at the age of 37, is an unwitting testament and self-portrait, with the artist borrowing a clown's clothes and a friend's face for the final masquerade...