Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this season. Pierre Monteux was one of the last to succumb. The Schelling opus is an interesting experiment, but scarcely a heaven-storming masterpiece. Based on a poem* by Alfred Noyes, which first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, it tells, in music, the tale of the return to earth of the spirits of soldiers slain in the late War. Instead of the solemn masses, purity, virtue, which they expect to find as a result of their sacrifices, they discover shameful and riotous dancing, sinful and boisterous merrymaking. The music is a fairly effective translation of this situation into sound...
...improvement of the revival over the original seems to be the elimination of the epilogue, showing Leah finding her salvation by grubbing in the earth...
...recreate that joy on earth...
...operation through an invisible ray. He has demonstrated its efficacy with but a quarter kilowatt of power on engines in the laboratory, and needs only to strengthen its current for operation at a greater distance to bring airplanes in flight to a full stop and send them crashing to earth. No insulation is proof against this weapon, for if the carburetor were sufficiently protected, the ray could be so intensified as to set the wing fabric afire. Said he: "I believe that in the near future machine guns will be found only in museums...
...blue star of the first magnitude in the constellation Auriga, into audible sound waves. The transformation was effected by a bulb of four electrodes, with much higher potential than the audion bulbs commonly used in wireless. The star is 71 light years (over 400 trillion miles) from the earth. The sounds were audible over a telephone to a considerable distance. The report was presented to the French Academy of Science...