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Searched for figur in Diaries (152 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1914-10-04

    ... betrayal from his wealthy pupils, and that they have referred to him, too, with the term "friendship," something that they always do when they go begging. If his figures are to be trusted, then he has come off worse than I, which would be a sign that he ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-10-05

    ... wage bill for the military personnel. We, whose eyes cannot progress beyond the most modest figures, could simply not believe how the state could raise such sums as the army requires in wartime. – Gärtner additionally recounts his bad experiences which ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-11-17

    ... in an elementary school. One wonders whether a mighty figure, a sort of Luther on the papal throne (if that is not at the outset a contradiction in terms), would find precisely this difficult moment as suitable for explaining to the world its infamous ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-06-28

    ... health. Flowers delivered to Gärtner. Money and umbrella received from Brünauer. In the Peters Yearbook for 1914–15 I find borrowings of my editions of Beethoven sonatas. At the same time, the following curiosity: Schoenberg continues to figure in 1914 ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-08-15

    ... , Helfferich estimated the German national wealth to be 285 billion, but around 335 billion according to the statistics of the fire insurance, so that he felt obliged to take the mean figure of 310 billion. From this it can be seen that, even in the land of ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-08-25

    ... , aufgebauschte Daten aus u. dgl. m. Marginal remark in Schenker's hand: Bibel ("the Bible"). Achans Achan: a figure who appears in the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible in connection with the fall of Jericho and conquest of Ai. After the Battle of Jericho Joshua ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-12-31

    ... to propagate the nationalist idea! Interviews with Seitz and Renner. Celebrated Frenchmen in support of Wilson and in favor of the League of Nations, among them grotesque figures including Bourgeois: "France, the eternal soldier of freedom and justice ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-03-25

    ... nationalen Strömungen und die Notlage in Deutschösterreich, in: Neues Wiener Tagblatt, No. 83, March 25, 1919, 53rd year, p. 3. Dernburg u. der „Vorwärts“ gegen einen entwürdigenden Frieden: Deutschland steht heute als gefesselte Simson Samson: a figure in ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-12-18

    ... Rang bei der Meinung der Zuschauer wirbt. Die einfache Transposition von seinem eigenen Wesen auf die Figur müßte ihm sagen, daß ein wahrhafter Künstler wohl einem Schicksal erliegen kann, dennoch niemals in der Art, wie es die modernen Dichter ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-06-29

    ... equal footing with the Germans. A knavish trick of the petty vanity of an incapable humanity! What stands out most tragically is the figure of our Emperor, who, true to his pious ways of thinking, is able to see in all this merely fate, the will of God ...

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