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...such sentimentalists as mourn the end of wars fought by men and strategy and view with disfavor the advent of chemical gas, motorized armies, and entrenched nations, Jackson must always be a favorite hero...
...believe that by casting 'The Taming of the Shrew' in modern dress, a fresh interest in Shakespeare can be given. This play is now in popular disfavor, although of course in the days of Ellen Terry the people thought it among the best of Shakespearean dramas. By putting an Italian gentleman, Petruccio, in a cowboy outfit and by introducing a modern touch to the lines, the audiences seem to become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage...
...Protestant Episcopal Church from 45 of the 72 U. S. dioceses, signed a memorial to the House of Bishops petitioning that the Thirty-nine articles be retained in the Prayer Book. The signers of the memorial omitted to specify certain Romish practices which they regarded with much disfavor; but they made reference to "an organized movement wishing the Protestant Episcopal Church to adopt some of the doctrines and forms of worship now observed in the Roman Catholic Church...
...importing a great new musical idea, a new school of conductors, singers. There came the day then of Lehmann, of Ternina, Fremstad, Schumann-Heink, of Jean de Reszke, Anton Seidl, of Toscanini-and Wagner was indeed a Titan. There came the War, and German singers, German music were in disfavor, but Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannhäuser, Tristan, Meister singer, the four Ring operas-Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung-and the valedictory Parsifal. Today enthusiasm has reached the pitch...
...bottom. There is a clear alignment in this difference of rating. On one side are Harvard people, on the other a majority of the rest of the world, hardly a satisfactory division of opinion. But the fact remains that while he is theoretically inclined to view with disfavor such a position, he is quite as likely to practice not a little pride in it. The paradox is easily understandable and as closely as is possible approaches an explanation of a manner of thinking which has brought such a shower of just criticism from outsiders...