Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...various jobs that will be thrust at him . . . is prepared to throw his full weight against the war system!' . . . Perhaps your conclusion means that it is the function of a conscientious objector to do all that he can to hinder and defeat war preparations by others. If so, I suggest that this is beyond the legitimate scope of the activities of a conscientious objector...
Like the earlier symphonic discs, the operatic records are anonymously performed, without benefit of rehearsals (at which union musicians must be paid). They are not quite so wonderful as the Committee's advertisements suggest. Indeed, the New York Better Business Bureau asked the Committee to moderate its claims (which it did). But the Committee's discs are by no means bad, may well increase U. S. music appreciation. Among the recording artists are Metropolitan Opera Tenors Armand Tokatyan and Raoul Jobin, Basso Norman Cordon. Among the operas so far released, Carmen is the best; Faust is a series...
...declared class war on society in the Communist Manifesto, a sardonic paean to the achievements of capitalism, a slashing indictment of its motives, methods and results, a rousing shout to the proletariat to throw off its chains. Meanwhile Marx organized the First International, fought everybody else who tried to suggest anything, wrecked it when he could no longer control it. Says Wilson: "Marx was incapable of imagining democracy at all. He had been bred in an authoritarian country...
...Bill Knudsen and his six fellow commissioners had to build a strange, specialized plane-ship-&-munitions economy inside and alongside a vast bread-&-butter economy, which had to go on working. The President had given the Commission no legal power to do anything. All they could do was advise, suggest, request-no more. They did not even have a boss. Franklin Roosevelt kept that post for himself...
...hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness. . . ." Yet always his work grew better, for mental activity and creative power often increase with the disease. Stevenson's travels through Provence, U. S. mountains, the South Seas to his Samoan grave suggest not only a search for healthful air but the consumptive's itch for vagabondage...