Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unquestionablyit is the orderly chronicling of events that underlies al history. But interwoven must be color and life or the events will lose their relative importance or fail to stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed...
...live for an by the exercise of specialized functions only, so long will society be chaos. The surgeon who sees all life in terms of physical derangements, the merchant who lives in a world of leather or of cheese, the artist who knows nothing but tone or color, the savant without capacity for action--these men lack the ability for coordination which makes human relations intelligible and intelligent. Business men frequently are so helpless in fields other than their own, that they cannot choose service intelligently; professional men generally are slacking in perception of educational principles, that the only distinctions...
...still the civilized nations, turning from Genoa for a moment, ask "What next?" Washington critics have declared that Wu's victory is for the benefit of China; and the General's continued assurances that his sole aim is to put China's house in order give color to the belief. The President, Hsu Shih, is to remain in office until the end of his term; nor has Wu taken any steps toward entering Peking. His announced policy is only to call a constitutional convention uniting north and south China, and to put the Government on its feet...
...literature is facing an extraordinary problem, according to latest reports. Literally, it is sinking under the weight of its own decorations. Almost as many prizes are being awarded annually for the "book of the year", as there are books published. Bookstains in Montmartre are lost in a maze or color,--red, green, and gold banded book-covers, shutting out the name of the author eagerly displaying the fact that the sevel almost won the "Prix do Goncourt", or that voters in some weekly's popularity contest put only two other books ahead...
Despite this scattering of peroxide hairs among the silver, however, the opera still remains a delightful and amusing creation. Straus's score is still "a thing of beauty and a joy forever". Moreover the settings of the first act combine brilliance of color with an ingenious use of draperies, and the whole is no further from the actualities of Bulgaria than the nature of the piece demands. The garden scene, likewise, is most picturesque, and is not sufficiently like any known landscape as to mislead even the most realistically-minded...