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Diary entry for 1924-01-21
... him to tea on Wednesday. Lie-Liechen finishes off the fair copy completely; at 4:30 we take the "Miscellanea" of the sixth issue to Detoni; Lie-Liechen receives the page make-up of the fifth issue. At home a certain Mr. Lahusen awaits me; when I ask ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-28
... not clear whether he means that a woman's value is measured as a fraction of her partner's (i.e. that "Mrs. Eighty" is worth four-fifths of her partner) or as a proportion of the total value ("Mrs. Eighty" is worth four-fifths of the partnership, her ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-23
... Gedanken hinauszuschicken! 23. Bernard Shaw’s Fanny’s First Play. Prologue and epilogue bear a distant similarity to those first and fifth acts that Shakespeare often uses to frame a dramatic core, e.g. in The Merchant of Venice. The main piece itself is ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-13
... fault lies with – Mendelssohn. – Dvořák's Fifth Symphony ("from the New World"): misuse of sonata form for the purposes of a potpourri; at best a rhapsody would have been appropriate. The dramatic accents of the symphony were transferred artificially ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-07
... not coming to her lesson at all– which would have happened in any event if she had gone to Japan – or at least ceded to me the fifth quarter-hour, which is in any event a gift of grace for her. For the first time in a long time, another number of Die ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-02
... 's games. Add to this the obligatory study of the Bible which, for a Jewish child, begins as early as the fifth year of his life: and thus seriousness – more than an innocent playfulness – is driven into their limbs. Even fairy tales and images of nature ...
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Diary entry for 1906-10-31
... relationships of the octave, fifth, fourth, and after that the smaller and becoming ever smaller intervals; but just as between the numbers 1 and 2 an infinite series of subdivisions can be interpolated, all of which when added to 1 do not reach, and cannot ever ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-26
... fulfill that to which his aptitude has called him! The fourth, fifth and sixth dimensions are the concerns only of people cannot do anything about the first, second and third. If one occupied the present and dedicated oneself properly to a cause in the ...