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...disappointing. Beethoven's First Symphony, which should be within the Orchestra's scope, never seemed to get off the ground. Although the woodwind and brass sections were unusually strong, the strings were unable to carry their weight; the violins were ragged and the cellos unnecessarily heavy. In a vain effort to keep everyone together, conductor Attilio Poto chose calm and moderate tempi, but these only made the faults more obvious...
...word was coined for this kind of view: Titoism. Tito has once met Gomulka, who made "a very favorable impression. He is a worker, rather modest and reticent." Gomulka was less impressed by the vain Tito, privately referred to him as "a fat swine." When Stalin expelled Tito from the Russian family, Polish Communist leaders concurred in denouncing Tito, all except Gomulka, who said: "I don't know who is right or who is wrong, but we must end it all without publicity. We must find a compromise." He refused to attend a Cominform conference in Rumania where...
Fight always for the highest attainable aim But never put up resistance in vain...
...warning to all those who would be willing to kill others in order to improve the survivors. Says Churchill: "A school grew up to gape in awe and some in furtive admiration at these savage times . . . The twentieth century has sharply recalled its intellectuals from such vain indulgences...
Pius remembered the words that God spoke to Cain: "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth." And he added: "The blood of the Hungarian people cries vengeance to the Lord." The United Nations General Assembly, having already voted, in vain, to send a commission of inquiry into Hungary, voted overwhelmingly to promote large-scale relief for Hungary's victims, and voted decisively (48-11, with 16 abstentions, mostly all Arab-Asian) to indict Russia for its "intolerable" acts of repression...