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...popular tunes are not musicians enough .to be able to invent new forms of expression. All they do is adapt the discoveries of great men to the vulgar taste. . . . Beethoven is responsible, because it was he who first devised really effective mu- sical methods for the direct expression of passion and emotions. Beethoven's passion and emotions happened to be noble. But, unhappily, he made it pos sible for people of infinitely inferior mind and character to express in music their less exalted passions and more vul- gar emotions. . . . He made possible such masterpieces of popular...
...MacDonald says arbitration is justice without passion. I agree. But you cannot have justice without some force behind it. We must combine right and might. We must make what is mighty, just; and what is just, mighty. If we are to give to people what they desire, if we are to save them a repeti tion of their sufferings, we have got to provide for their security...
...world on all public questions in the last three decades, the partners have been responsible for The Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols., 1901-06), Schaff-Hertzog's Encyclopedia of Re ligious Knowledge, Hoyt's Cyclopedia of Quotations, Cyclopedia of Classified Dates and other monumental works. Dr. Funk's guiding passion was for undertakings on a big scale with a special penchant for lexicography. When he died, he had just completed the manuscript for The New Standard Dictionary. Adam Willis Wagnalls found his forte in the financial rather than in the editorial side of the business. He remained active in the firm...
...Knowing well the public's passion for decking out their automobiles with pennants, posters, pasters, the Jantzen Knitting Mills, Inc., began last June issuing red bathing-girl pasters to automobile agencies and garages. Though no prominent printing appeared on the pasters, they were advertisements for Jantzen swimming-wear for women. When slim, beauti-formed bathing girls proved popular, the company then tried out a clumsy, fat, comic mermodel for use on trucks, flivvers, etc. Circulation: 100,000 fat; 300,000 thin...
Koussevitzky has always been more concerned with the reality of achievement than with the appearance of it. For diverse interests he substitutes his great and lonely passion; he indulges no hobbies, tolerates in himself no eccentricities. In countenance, he is grave; in dress and manner, he resembles a cosmopolitan man of business. Only his hands and eyes admit the implication that this business has to do with Art. He was born in Tver, in Northern Russia, and received his first employment as double bass in the Moscow Imperial Opera. He rose to become a conductor and toured Europe with...