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Diary entry for 1914-09-13
... carrying the intellectual train of his wife; in short, all his characteristics remain unchanged. Just to be difficult, and pretending to do so unintentionally – and with his wife's English-American background firmly in mind – I dared to say that the English ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-13
... travelers will again esteem what they see, and how they see, so that the stronger nature of the geniuses will recede into the background; and all that will count is what the travelers see, but not what the geniuses see. And even if the travelers are able to ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-25
... white tummies flashed and whirred against the blue background of the sky, how they kept twittering brightly, all this brought into the air a delightful movement that had to be involuntarily communicated to humans. Postcard from Mrs. Deutsch; she reports ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-10
... models for so long, have been pushed far into the background, that they have even become an object of ridicule to the Americans. Benedikt (Neue Freie Presse) chews on wretched morsels of ideas. Brünauer attempts to pay his lesson fee in its entirety ...
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Diary entry for 1917-09-10
... conversation over lunch. The talkativeness and frankness of the two were crushing; and yet in spite of all the tragedy of the background, it seemed comical when the daughter cut her mother off whenever she took up the story, immediately taking over herself; and ...
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Diary entry for 1919-03-26
... , background. Arbeiter-Zeitung: "Peace in Eight Days" (very appropriately severe criticism of the mistakes of the Entente, most importantly the admission: "But the fatal wounds came not from without, but from within"!) "Dictatorship by Councils, or Democracy ...
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Diary entry for 1928-11-28
... question that Vrieslander posed cannot, however, be answered without a theoretical background; thus he had to stumble about on the surface. He expressly rejected the viewpoint of the Urlinie and all that immediately follows from it, without realizing that ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-20
... majority. How glorious will be the rainbow arching over mankind when the sun of genius is victorious over the cloud-mass of majority, and the miracle of its colors tints the background. ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-11
... on in typical Viennese-Austrian fashion by referring by name to all the nurses, e.g. those in the Secession. Thus even a warrior who is perhaps struggling with death must be pushed into the background behind some "society lady" who, in order to steer ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-09
... it, then surely only out of egoism. Was ever a second child conceived against such a background? Mrs. Deutsch enters my room and asks me "when did Mr. Perutz used to come?" From the natural tone of the question, I suspected at first that the lady ...