Nor can anyone be certain that Prokofieff would have done better, or even as well, under different circumstances.

It must be conceded that his native land provided Prokofieff with many of the necessary conditions for great creative incentive: economic security and cultural opportunities, incisive idioms, social fermentations for a new national ideology -- a sympathetic public and a large body of performers especially trained to fulfill his purpose.

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

Why did Prokofieff expand in stature and fecundity, while Stravinsky ( who leaped into fame like a young giant ) dwindled in stature and fruitfulness??

However, its use for propulsion was first given serious thought by Thomas Townsend Brown in 1928 and later on by Major Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky, who contributed much to its basic physics and construction variations in 1960.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Prokofieff was guided in a consistent direction by the life of his own people -- by the compass of their national ideas.

Prokofieff was able to adjust his creative personality to a swiftly changing world without losing his particular force and direction.

It is at this point in his life that the mature Prokofieff emerges.

Of course, it must not be forgotten that in achieving this historical feat, Prokofieff had the vast resources of his people behind him ; ;

and with sober purpose, because the development of Prokofieff personifies, in many ways, the course of music in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The Serge Prokofieff whom we knew in the United States of America was gay, witty, mercurial, full of pranks and bonheur -- and very capable as a professional musician.

Certainly, America took Prokofieff and his Classical Symphony seriously, and with a good deal of pleasure.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.

In this world-wide conscription of men, minds, and machines, Prokofieff was recalled to his native land.

In this changed world, Prokofieff settled to find himself, and to create for large national purpose.

Here, Prokofieff became a workman in the vineyards of Socialism -- producing music for the masses.

But no: Prokofieff grew.

And with what resource did Prokofieff back up his Credo of words -- with torrents of powerful music.

Prokofieff never forsakes his medium for the cause of experimentation per se.

So Prokofieff was able to cultivate his musical talents and harvest a rich reward from them.

When Prokofieff forged his new clarity of `` lucid, straightforward music, so difficult to compose '', he shaped his talents to his purpose.

Thus in Prokofieff the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics produced one of the great composers of the Twentieth Century.

And the Prokofieff Seventh Sonata had the combination of romanticism and modern bravura that Prokofieff needs.

And in the Prokofieff C major Piano Concerto, with Zadel Skolovsky as soloist, he was an admirable partner.

`` You might as well wait here while I'm gone, so you can use my shower if you'd like ''.

The oxen might as well enjoy it.

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.

Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.

During the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.

Unspeakable tortures or even execution might well be their fate.

Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.

But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;

The United States might well have exploited the opportunity provided by the European Recovery Program to push the hesitant European nations toward political federation as well as economic cooperation, but all proposals to this effect were rejected by the United States Government at the time.

`` It might well start a craze like swallowing goldfish or pee-wee golf '', wrote Kenneth Rexroth in an explanatory note in the Evergreen Review, and he may have been right.

Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??

For the sad truth is that while one might write well without having read Bartleby The Scrivener, one is more likely, to write well if one has `` read it, and much else.

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

Hansen will be getting a late spring training start, which might very well set him back.

If the Communists are sincere in wanting a united, neutral and disarmed Germany, it might well be advantageous for the German people in this nuclear age.

If we go into this Common Market, we might just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general.

As for rebuilding, well, that might be looked into, but there was no hurry, no hurry at all.

And while her Adonis did not suffer from inexperience, satiety might well be an equal handicap.

With his club foot he might well be grateful.

So, not only had he been here before, but it seemed he might well come again.