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...coal, gas or oil for furnace fuel will depend on costs. But where coal furnaces persist, the coal must be kept in dustproof bins and fed into the furnace by mechanical stokers. Household heat from a community central heating system is remote, except for new, custom-built towns. Each house will have its own incinerator for waste paper...
...money but rings and snuffboxes often paid for 18th Century music. Little, bewigged Mozart sat on the Empress Maria Theresa's ample lap. Once he was permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth for six years out of their union of nine. He went deeper & deeper in debt. Figaro earned him $200, Don Giovanni about $225. A grey-clad stranger knocked at his door one day, asked him to narrow his price...
Teaching, however, is an intensely personal matter; it depends on the personality of the instructor and on the depth of his appreciation of his subject. No amount of theorizing can make a good teacher of a man not adapted for his job, while an excessive amount of it may dampen the originality and enthusiasm of a person with a genuine interest in his material. Furthermore, attention to the method, at the expense of the substance of teaching is much like giving courses in expression, as do some mid-western colleges, to students who have nothing to express. True education...
...success of the new plan will depend almost wholly on the careful selection of personnel. Reducing the number of lectures is in itself only a condition of improvement. The skill with which section meetings are conducted will determine whether or not the formal changes are valuable...
...maturity of their own; and mythology, superstition, magic, from the childhood of culture, may still live with accumulated sophistication as an unrealized phantom in our modern civilization. If can scarcely be denied that here is a fascinating realm for exploration. The ultimate value of the Surrealiste painter does not depend upon what you may think of his subject matter but in the last analysis depends upon the quality of his execution...