Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Above all art is manliness. Fritz Kreisler, the violinist, is subordinate to Fritz Kreisler, the man. And the artist who decides to surrender voluntarily contracts that would net him $100,000, because war conditions have made it hard for the parties contracting with him to fulfill their part of the bargains made, the artist who determines to live quietly in this country till war ends and to play only for charity and without compensation, compels at least a measure of admiration...
...Eagle realizes, as most thinking Americans realize, that there was no moral obliquity and no anti-Americanism in the fighting Kreisler did at the front against the Czar's troops in the early days of the great war. He was an Austrian subject. He did his duty as he saw it. And if Americans had not much use for Franz Josef, they did not feel their sympathies going out very strongly to the Emperor Nicholas...
...theory that confronts Kreisler today; there is a stirring of mass sentiment against even art that is Teutonic in origin, and managers who have contracted with the Austrian would stand to lose heavily if he were to hold to his rights. We are not yet at war with Austria. His claims would be hard to contest in our courts. He chooses to cut the Gordian Knot and ask all managers to release...
Owing to the fact that next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, which will take most of the students away from Cambridge on Wednesday evening, the fourth of the University series of War Lectures will be given next Friday evening instead of being held according to custom on Wednesday...
...sure that Sherman's definition of war was made in winter time. Then we have all terrors and hardships without pleasures; we freeze as though we were in Russia, yet we have no Germans to kill and thus get warm, nor will any one come along and put us out of our miseries. So we suffer. The one solace is to watch the band. That marvelous sound-producing organization is even more handicapped by cold than we. The instruments of brass are helpless in the breeze, the drums alone are audible above a sea of discord. The agony...