Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student of mental matters, assured them that Mr. Khaldah's feats ranged from those familiar in telepathy to others for which there were only two or three precedents. Another "seance" was arranged at the home of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, the physicist whose work helped Einstein to his classic theory...
...less interesting to see how the romantic conception of Greek art influences popular opinion today. When we think of a Greek temple the very expression "classic", by which we describe it suggests pure white, immaculate marble, austere straight lines, and perfect symmetry. Much the same conception arises in regard to sculpture. That the snowy whiteness of the marble should ever have been colored seems not only impossible to most people but almost sac-religious. But it is well to realize that not only was such sculpture as was done in marble painted in many details, but also that colored designs...
...premiere presentation of the Cercle Francais play "L'Avare," Moliere's famous classic comedy, will be given in Jordan Hall, Boston, at 8.30 o'clock this evening...
...other to put Tommy over for the winning score. The plot is as old as the theatre. There's a little French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight, the children refuse to accept the feud as final separation, and Romeo-and-Juliet-like they defy the quarrel. The young lady is being abducted, her lover saves her. The fathers relent. All is forgiven. Curtain...
...Britons made haste to nickname MM. Tewfik and Tchitcherin are among the last surviving exponents of "classical diplomacy. " Minister Tchitcherin is a pre-War Tsarol diplomatic underling who has flowered into a notable intrigant in the Bolshevist hothouse. Minister Tewfik is that famed fisher in troubled waters who almost succeeded in embroiling the League of Nations, the World Court and the principal Powers in an inextricable tangle over the issue of Mosul (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925). When two such "classic diplomats" foregather with their secretaries the cause of their journeying to a tryst on the shore of the inhospitable Black...