Word: weeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oblig'd; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While Wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise:- Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if ATTICUS were...
Certainly some conductors (and some famous ones) make the strings weep when the composer only intended them to sigh. But if all that is needed is to follow the composer's explicit directions, what's all the fuss about conducting? To the average listener, it might seem that a mechanical metronome would serve as well as a human one. There are other conscientious conductors, just as selflessly anxious as Toscanini to express the composer's intent. Why does Toscanini tower over them...
...Theologically, it is the dialectical logic of that trinitarian oneness whose triunity is as much a necessity to the understanding of Godhead as higher mathematics is to the measurement of motion. Religiously, its logic, human beyond rationality, is the expression of a need epitomized in the paradox of Solon weeping for his dead son. "Why do you weep," asked a friend, "since it cannot help?" Said Solon: "That is why I weep-because it cannot help...
With a fatherly pat on the head, the Boston sports columnists have welcomed Arthur Valpey to the Harvard scene. Most of them have taken great care to show him that Harvard football is not Michigan football and that he will probably break down and weep when he sees the puny, soft-shell Hahvuds he has inherited. "Good luck, son--you're going to need it!" is the warning...
...cheek he seized her fervidly, planted a lingering kiss which was repeated when she turned the other cheek. Less enthusiastic, Nan replied with a light brush of her lips on his jaw, and patted his shoulder. Then, his face frozen like that of a small boy who wants to weep but will not, he watched her climb into the train for Paris...