Word: yieldingness
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The most striking work of the evening was the Piano Sonata in G which received its first public performance by the composer, Paul Des Marais, instructor in music. The breadth of development in the opening movement is what impressed me first. Here is a modern composer who does not strip...
Secularism. "[There is the] constant temptation for this country to turn away from God and to become immersed in material pursuits . . . Widespread yielding to this temptation has given rise to an even greater danger-the way of life we call secularism. Those who follow this way of life distort and...
If it is really possible to govern a country by ritual and yielding, there is no more to be said. But if it is not really possible, of what use is ritual?
China's claim to suzerainty over Mongolia was mostly ritual and yielding. In 1921 Russia's Bolsheviks, taking advantage of China's own Civil War, helped out a local revolution against Chinese rule, and in 1924 Bolshevik Choibalsan set up the Soviet puppet People's Republic...
But the lines must be straight and the same distance apart within a tolerance of less than one millionth of an inch, and to make an "engine" rule them with this extreme accuracy is fantastically difficult. When measured by these high standards, even massive steel bars seem as flexible as...