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...they got in 1939, and increased their seats in the powerless Rigsdag lower house from 137 to 143. The Germans deliberately kept the German minority (Schleswig) party out of the campaign, and the Danish pro-Nazi elements lost three of eight seats. Instead of praise for Germany's benign treatment, Dr. Goebbels reaped humiliating acclaim for Denmark's adherence to the democratic ideal...
...While the youthful Siegfrieds, Tristans and Tannhausers are all muscle-on the stage, mostly stomach-and ego, their elders (Wotan, Hans Sachs, Kurwenal, et al.) are mostly kindhearted, responsible, possessed of human failings and a regard for social obligations. For 20 years at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera these benign Wagnerian oldsters have been impersonated by the outstanding Wagnerian baritone of his generation, stocky, bald-headed Friedrich Schorr. Last week, before a packed house that rose to its feet and cheered, Friedrich Schorr sang Wotan for the last time. At 54, Friedrich Schorr was getting too old to be Wagner...
Horace Taft, stern as well as benign, made his boys work their heads off. Said he, with a scornful glance at progressive education: "I am a great believer in the vital importance for character building of that which comes from training in old-fashioned obedience. . . . The farther we move toward the Golden Age in which the people shall rule, the more vital becomes the necessity that the people shall obey." His passion for civic as well as scholastic discipline won him undeserved notoriety as a prohibitionist. Sighed he: "Although I was never a prohibitionist, I rarely succeeded in making anybody...
...protozoa which cause the disease are carried by about 60 kinds of mosquitoes and are of four main varieties, each producing its own form of malaria: 1) Plasmodium vivax produces the mildest disease, benign tertian malaria; 2) P. malariae bring on quartan malaria, the most difficult to eradicate; 3) P. falciparum produces dangerous malignant tertian malaria; 4) P. ovale produces symptoms similar to those of benign tertian malaria...
...totaquine or quinine is available, or if a patient has benign tertian malaria, treatment can begin with atabrine...