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...mediocre singer, accompanied him on his tour through Europe. She often spoiled his music by insisting on singing it, kept him from being friends with Wagner. But abroad Berlioz was a lion. His countless quarrels were with Parisians and their frothy musical tastes; with Parisians because they rarely performed his music to his liking, or did not trouble to perform it at all. Berlioz blared out his indignations as he did much of his music. When a French editor undertook to improve on one of Beethoven's symphonies. Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such...
...details to be harped on endlessly, teaching becomes as soulless as was the music at an old silent movie. For example, in the Old Plan Restrictive English Examination, grammatical rules. MacBeth, Silas Marner, Burke's Conciliation and few others are carefully memorized and then like trained animals the students perform them for the examination. For all the examiner could tell, these seven or eight books might be all the pupil had ever read...
...picayune. It is easier for the large departments to get a million dollars than it is for my small department to get $10. In pursuit of its penny-wise-&-pound-foolish policy, the city threatens to handicap seriously the work the medical examiner's office is supposed to perform...
...While the Republican party does not claim it can perform the impossible, it is willing to be judged on its record. In the winter of 1928-29 it was apparent that the country was engaged in too much speculation. I was alarmed at it and kept in contact with the Federal Reserve Board. I understood they were using their influence quietly to check speculation...
Charles Tillyer Trego, who made The Isle of Paradise, first saw Bali when he was working in Cunard Line's advertising department, preparing advertisements for world" cruises. He went back with a camera, found it easy to bribe natives with rings, shirts, hardware, to perform. One mishap occurred: 15 Balinese, tipsy on mild wine and carrying a cremation tower, ran over him and his camera. His picture, the leisurely record of a six-month visit, is beautifully photographed and has the warm, informal authenticity that most travelogs lack. Good shot: a Balinese youth (Trego's valet, who refused...