Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects... gave him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre, and miles of new boulevards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Honestly, the real trouble is ... a gang which unfortunately survives--made up mostly of those who were isolationists before Decem...ber seventh and who are actuated today by various motives in their effort to instill disunity in the country.... The best comment I have heard was by Elmer Davis.... "Some people want the United States to win so long as England loses. Some people want the United States to win so long as Russia loses. Some people want the United States to win so long as Roosevelt loses."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He poses as Jefferson Davis to please the Disruptionists. He ... poses as Lincoln to please the Unionists.... Why does he not visi...t America, and learn the cult of the man who can look his fellow man (or newspaper) in the eye, and tell him to go to hell?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there....... I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though learned, well-bred; and though well-bred, sincere; Modestly bold, and humanly severe:... Who to a friend his faults can freely show, And gladly praise the merit of a foe?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »