' […] you'd prefer some Stravinsky or Stockhausen. Something unlistenable.'

to bear a railroad stock

It is not literature that speaks kingward, priestward, nobleward, systemward, formward; but it is literature which throws off all these things and issues as a winged creature from the shell of the past.

The creancer looked after the young man's money, disciplined him and perhaps gave him some teaching, though the youth went also to the lectures provided by the university and later by the colleges.