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...conscience of his musical generation, particularly on every artist who ever worked with him-at La Scala, the Metropolitan (1908-15), in the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (1928-36), at Salzburg, at Bayreuth and the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937-54). Few could define exactly how the little tyrant worked his magic with them. As he hoarsely, ardently sang along with the orchestra, or exhorted, bullied and implored, he could make performers redden with shame, burn with rage, or soften with sympathy for him. And with uncanny and unerring instinct, he knew which would wring a surpassing performance from each...
...most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology disguised as politics could be even bloodier. Churchill argues that ancient English liberties reposed in the monarch, the church and Parliament-but that Parliament, when it overthrew the others, could be a worse tyrant than either...
...passions of the era, the Northern Copperhead papers no less than the Southern press called Abraham Lincoln names that for venomous variety have been unsurpassed before or since in editorial tirades against a President-"The Ape,'' "Simple Susan," "Kentucky Mule," "Illinois Beast," "traitor," "lowborn, despicable tyrant," "cringing, crawling creature...
...gratitude to his favorite, the emperor had made her former master his prime minister, and that rapacious man had made the name of Yang a byword and a hissing in every corner of the empire. At last there was a revolution. The emperor's own guard put the tyrant to death, and demanded the life of Yang Kwei Fei as well. The emperor, desperate, begged them to spare her, but in vain. She was hanged with her own silk scarf from a young plum tree. "Oh God!" cried the emperor, his heart broken, when they brought her body...
...self-sacrifice and renunciation so extreme that it astounded one's opponents and led them to reconsider their own attitudes. "Fasting for the sake of personal gain is nothing short of intimidation," said Gandhi. "I fasted to reform those who love me ... you cannot fast against a tyrant...