Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wiry, bespectacled Shostakovich, who had been laboring desperately but unsuccessfully to get in line with the new romantic-minded order, finally turned the trick in his Fifth Symphony and was promptly restored to grace. This symphony, described by mollified Moscow critics as "a work of great depth and emotional wealth," will be given its U. S. premiere over the air next week by the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski...
Hissed, heckled, and occasionally cheered during a speech sponsored by Harvard University's Young Conservatives last week, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share the Wealth") Smith, erstwhile spiritual adviser to the late Senator Huey P. Long, declared that "rabble-rousing is needed to bring the country out of chaos," urged that "a chair of rabble-rousing" be established at Harvard...
...book popular among the reading public is the sincerity, wisdom, and quiet humor of the author. The people he talks about are described with the greatest reality, yet they frequently remind the reader of various rustic characters in fiction. But aside from the fictional element, the book contains a wealth of information on disorders of the body and their treatment. These are exact but not pedantically scholarly, so that the reader absorbs a great deal of medical information without realizing...
...Richard Wagner, you are a great man," squawked the well-trained parrot from the corner of the room. The genius nodded approval. "The bird must be right." In the future he would do greater things: he would build his own opera house, acquire wealth, lampoon the critics, devastate his enemies. But for the present he must evade the enemy. Quickly packing his most valuable possessions, he slipped quietly downstairs and fled from the City of Dresden...
...fits well the idea of modern pantheism, for in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost the Christian mystic achieves union with God and at the same time overcomes his individuality, which limits and restricts man, in three ways. The moralist says that the man who works for fame and wealth lives only for time, but he who works for ideals of goodness and beauty lives for eternity. The heart, with the poet its soldier, claims that Love is the most divine quality...