Did he ever have a nice word to say?
Sure, 'ALMA' is a kind of big praise of Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel:
The loveliest girl in Vienna,
was Alma, the smartest as well....
the body that reached her embalmer
was one that had known how to live.
And that song was kind of a response to a really difficult song contest started by himself. How do I write an English song with rhymes on Alma, the first and last names of her three husbands and their major works. That is: how do find rhymes for Franz, Mahler, Gustav, Werfel, Walter, Gropius, Alma, Bauhaus, Bernadette, Das Lied von der Erde.

Wolfgang