Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of su...ch varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the heart of the educational process lies the child. No advances in policy, no acquisition of new equipment have their desired ...effect unless they are in harmony with the child, unless they are fundamentally acceptable to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports ...with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord... in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality.... Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each p...erformer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the building of a new Japan Let's put our mind and strength together,... Doing our best to promote production, Sending our goods to the peoples of the world, Endlessly and continuously, Like water gushing from a fountain. Grow, industry, grow, grow, grow, Harmony and sincerity. Matsushita Electrical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, t...he failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner. In life, we must begin to give a public performance before we have acquired even a novice's skill; and often our moments of seeming mastery are upset by new demands, for which we have acquired no preparatory facility. Life is a score that we play at sight, not merely before we have divined the intentions of the composer, but even before we have mastered our instruments; even worse, a large part of the score has been only roughly indicated, and we must improvise the music for our particular instrument, over long passages. On these terms, the whole operation seems one of endless difficulty and frustration; and indeed, were it not for the fact that some of the passages have been played so often by our predecessors that, when we come to them, we seem to recall some of the score and can anticipate the natural sequence of the notes, we might often give up in sheer despair. The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.... One who the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman's happiness and development are of more importance than all man's institutions. If constitutions and statute laws stand in t...he way of woman's emancipation, they must be amended to meet her wants and needs, of which she is a better judge than man possibly can be. If church canons and scriptures do not admit of women's equal recognition in all the sacred offices, then they must be revised in harmony with that idea. If the present family life is necessarily based on man's headship, then we must build a new domestic altar, at which the mother shall have equal dignity, honor and power; and we do not propose to wait another century to secure all this; the time has come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it "neo-traditionalism." To us it...'s a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family.... She is part of an extraordinary social movement that is profoundly changing the way Americans look at living--and the way products are marketed. The home is again the center of American life, oatmeal is back on the breakfast table, families are vacationing together, watching movies at home, playing Monopoly again. Even the perfume ads are suddenly glorifying commitment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »