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...much as any man of the modern era, Freud deserves a sustained and minutely probing biography, and Jones has, for the most part, measured up to the stringent demand. In the first volume, however, he often concerned himself with details of Freud's personal and professional life which added little understanding of the man or his work. Concern for detail, of course, can be a blessing as well as a bore, and in the latter stage of Freud's life, most of the details Jones relates are significant...
Emerson also called for a more stringent enforcement of the standard acceptance procedures of the Association of American Medical Colleges, which have come to be known as the "traffic rules...
...purely "intellectual." While Morse was at Yale, President Timothy Dwight regularly admonished his students against all kinds of fun. "Recollect," Dwight would cry out, "that you are to give an account of your conduct at the last day." Samuel Morse felt quite at home in this stringent atmosphere. Along with painting, he dabbled in electricity, which alarmed his father. "Your natural disposition,'' warned the elder Morse, "renders it proper for me earnestly to recommend to you to attend to one thing at a time...
Performance & Tradition. The St. Thomas Choir has sometimes been criticized on the grounds that its stringent interpretations strip Bach's music of emotion. The more lyrical school of Bach interpreters-including Karl Richter of the Munich Bach Choir and U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick-insist that Bach should be played more dynamically. "Thomas performs Bach," says one critic; ''Richter celebrates him." Actually, Cantor Thomas is a more venturesome man than some of his predecessors at Leipzig. After Bach's death, says the 28th cantor of the 15th, his music was almost completely forgotten until Mendelssohn discovered...
...guard the endangered fortunes of Europe's capitalists, in 1934 wrote it into law to protect the funds of victims of Nazi and Fascist persecution. Anyone can open a secret account in a Swiss bank, get a code number for all his transactions. The secrecy code is so stringent that the Swiss tax collector himself dares not inquire about a depositor's account...