Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gadabout bachelor ("My life is too naughty; I cannot write it"), he married at 43, now has two boys and two girls, youngest five months. Says Artur: "Boys are inclined to smile tolerantly and say 'Papa is a fine fellow-but a little mad.' But daughters-they understand-and adore! They know instinctively that an artist remains something of a child to the end of his days...
...dubbed on the sound track, playing as he thinks each would have played. His own pianistic style is clearly definable. Rubinstein is at his best in Chopin, and vice versa. Chopin's elusive poetic shadings and magical fire are easy to overdo. As a Pole, Rubinstein seems to understand the zal in Chopin's works, which Music Critic James Huneker defined as "a baleful compound of pain, sadness, secret rancor and revolt...
...belief . . . that 'education is the salvation of democracy' has proved to be naive and fallacious. . . . The German universities were . . . among the best in the world. . . . It was the total absence of any [democratic training] that made it impossible for the Germans . . . to understand or to practice democracy...
...Good manners, in a democracy, indeed anywhere, depend on a sympathetic understanding of all sorts and conditions of men. [Too many] graduates of our spiffy schools . . . do not have manners, they have only a manner . . . . Our high schools, particularly where there is no racial segregation, are our most effective training schools in democracy. . . . The truths of democracy are not difficult to understand. They are only difficult to practice...
...Post still hews to a right-of-center line, but in its text pieces it sometimes wavers in a fashion bewildering to readers. When its left-wing Associate Editor Edgar (Red Star Over China) Snow wrote a series about Russia to the effect that U.S. folks don't understand the Russians but should, the Post ran it-and added a self-conscious little note saying: "Readers may be interested to know that the series . . . precipitated as lively a debate in the editorial rooms . . . as ever taxed the capacities of Messrs. Bevin, Byrnes and Molotov. . . . I believe it is high...