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Diary entry for 1929-12-11
... to arrive too early at the concert. In the foyer, we meet Mr. Hoboken and Miss Kahn; Gieseking plays Beethoven's Concerto in E major! Basically, a healthy attack is missing – it is possible that his engagement with the most recent key-wiping composers ...
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Diary entry for 1930-09-06
... disobedience (activity?). The key to this disobedience (behavior?) had to remain hidden from all the participants, but I recognised that the ultimate reason was the passion for music-making on the part of a young person who becomes intoxicated by this very ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-23
... them only one house key; and although they come into conflict all too often over it, they still don't make a second key; but surely the young landlady has enough money for three or four hats. In the morning, before lunch, to Mrs. Bednař; she gives us 10 ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-27
... gap in the clouds admitted only the small orb of the sun, and it seemed as if the clouds formed eyelids, which gradually closed the eye – the sun – again. A few thunder strokes announced the transition to a sharper key; and now the rain pelted down ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-30
... well-being of Austria, and of humanity, is proclaimed in every key. Men of rank have devoted themselves like altar servers to this incense-work. But how grotesque did this issue look on a day on which the Austrian army is fighting for Austria, and for ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-29
... not mature enough for moral behavior! – believed that she at least owed it to me to declare that she should say so expressly a few days earlier. How the lower orders understand duty and decency! – Now trips to the locksmith to change the keys, etc ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-02
... madness of youth by which they believe they have complete intellectual parity with teachers and grownups. Such immature youths must be addressed in other terms, and in a different key, and explained that they – who are only learning – can in no way ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-08
... lunch for the tour: we wanted to take the path to the Darmstadt Hut, which Lie-Liechen has not yet seen. In the morning I request the key to the hut itself. On this occasion, Mr. Schuler instructs us to keep at all times to the right bank of the Moos, in ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-18
... not by any means view the assassination of an heir to the throne and his consort in the same way. Unfortunately, the author lacks the key to solving the puzzle: the megalomania of the businessman stands in inverse proportion to his achievement. In the ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-25
... only the key to poverty can point the way. In this way the drama hovers between the usual technique of the ordinary for sake of the ordinary, and a freer and higher one, which reproduces the strongly elevated feelings in refined poetic lines! The young ...