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Searched for construction (147 results found)

Filter: diaries: 83, correspondence: 36, lessonbooks: 18, person: 6, other: 3, work: 1

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  • Diary entry for 1913-01-20

    ... that the time needed for theoretical construction of such shabbiness is the most minimal, and that, seen from this point of view, my supposed conversion signifies, admittedly, the ascent of the highest peak in the Himalayas. After all, it was just an ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-02-22

    ... because his nerves prevent him at the outset from taking part in the creative process that was needed to formulate it. Why should, for example, a businessman who exports shoes today and offers loans for construction tomorrow care how the product is made ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-07-12

    ... , an unusual Calvary construction: on separate tree trunks, small drawings behind glass, which are in themselves of no value, have been taken out of magazines or drawn by devoted persons; and there, where the road makes a sharp turn, a thoroughly ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-01-06

    ... and most distant objects. He enchants us with the precocious gestures with which he imitates his father or mother; we are charmed by the verbal construction "nachwissen," apparently made from "nachdenken" (to consider) and "wissen" (to know), the use ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-05-10

    ... -beat and down-beat between which the note passes; a dissonant passing note is thus an artificial construct. So, too, a criminal is foreign to nature itself, he is only a product of culture. To the maid, four eggs and bread. Mittelmann at the coffee house ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-06-30

    ... picture looks the same to her as in Vienna. A trip in new surroundings: all images of nature, and of human construction such as stations, houses, villas, thoroughly friendly; the route goes mostly through the forest. In Seefeld itself, we experience a ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-09-26

    ... her (postcard): I name the day and times and advise her to draw the pupils' attention to the beginning of the season. At my apartment, Lie-Liechen pickles again the eggs that Anna had already pickled, and constructs a wall hanging for behind the bed ...

  • Diary entry for 1921-01-31

    ... of Fate itself as a ruling force towers above us. An inconceivable masterfulness in the construction of new catastrophes, without the audience remotely sensing that catastrophe, and even less so the man who is steering towards it. When it is no more ...

  • Diary entry for 1921-08-30

    ... , and for the first time Lie-Liechen was able to rest stretched out, not too badly. The old gentleman was a chief railway engineer, who had lived no less than forty-two years in Turkey, overseeing railway construction. Now he lives with his daughter in ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-03-21

    ... intricate phrase constructions in a most natural manner without ever showing the least bit of difficulty or craftiness. The honesty of the melody appears to originate in the honesty of the artistic nature, which also corresponds to an unaffected performance ...

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