Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Travelers have observed that the Persian is apt to be tolerably pious, quite up to Occidental average in sexual morality, easygoing, indo lent, not particularly patriotic and almost joyfully unencumbered by anything remotely approaching an Occidental's concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that...
...impressive bearing, the stubborn will, and the military self-righteousness of the typical Prussian officer as if he had spent his entire life in the Kaiser's army. The realism of this old gentleman's character may be somewhat difficult for the American of today to grasp. Gis concept of absolute paternal rule, his narrow, strict moral sense is, to be sure, not an every day sight among the present inhabitants of this country. But there is certainly no American living who need search further than a Methodist grandparent or a German neighbor for first hand evidence that such Puritainism...
...NATURE OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN - by 16 members of the Faculty of the University of Chicago - University of Chicago Press ($4). For a knowledgeable concept of the cosmos...
...being talked about by those who are usually reticent concerning fads and fancies. Mr. Wahio Frank has stopped analyzing America long enough to vivisect this latest of arts, in the New Republic. His criticism is more sapient than the average bombast against innovations, because it has a universal concept as its base Mr. Frank argues that while jazz may be folk art, such qualification does not grant it a halo a priori. "There has indeed been abroad for a full century the curious notion that folk art, as once the King can do no wrong; that folk art is necessarily...
Those of the 4,000 who went expecting a conventional musicianly concept of the Catholic ritual heard not that but more. They heard the soul of a great creator stomping through divine harmonies, shunting manufactured theories, demanding passage through forms and conventions to an Infinite. They heard Conductor Artur Bodanzky, inspired, fathom it all to the very depths with a fiery baton, get magnificent results from the Friends of Music Chorus...