Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast literature of undeservedly neglected music. This is a question of greatest importance to the musical public, for music is unique among the arts in its inaccessibility. Only a few highly trained musicians can read scores with as much pleasure as they get from a performance, and though recorded music has provided us with a few musical musecums, actual performances are still the chief means of bringing music to life...
...Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection of the music itself. The demands of the opposite type are a little harder to satisfy, especially in the case of a professional musician who, though he may favor more discrimination and enterprise in the selection of his concert lists, is forced to conform to the taste of the greater part of the public which supports him. In the case of an amateur or professional who performs for the benefit of a small, select audience, the problem...
Captain Hornblower has no actual prototype, though he somewhat resembles Admiral Nelson. A tall, slightly paunchy sea dog with thinning hair, Hornblower is a highstrung, self-doubting man who gets seasick at the start of a cruise, worries about losing his job, goes clammy at the start of a fight, pales at the sight of blood, has the devil's own time keeping his reputation for imperturbability...
...Life don't work like a job of work. You study out how to do a job and do it. But when it comes to living, they's not any way you can plan it and have it go according." He doesn't blame the Government though. "Our troubles," guesses Farmer X, "is just because we've lived too long...
...priceless Shakespearean manuscript. As the plot swirls and eddies, our hero Joel Sloane, a dealer in rare books, emerges unscathed from an arrest by the police, an attempted seduction, and a gruesome automobile accident. But all ends happily when Joel is shot in the seat by his wife, though the title "Fast and Loose" is inadequate to describe the pace...