Word: flesh-and-blood
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...German-singers now at the Metropolitan, to Conductor Artur Bodanzky who holds tight reins over them all. There is Maria Jeritza who gave last week her most gracious performance of the season as Elizabeth (Tannhäuser), whose Elsa (Lohengrin) and Sieglinde (Walküre) are compelling flesh-and-blood women worthy of the music given them to sing. There is Karin Branzell, worthy successor to Schumann-Heink as Erda (Rheingold and Siegfried), Fricka (Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangaene ( Tristan), Baritone Friedrich Schorr vocally unequalled as Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Sachs (Meistersinger), Gunther...
Existing as a man of straw, the Spokesman's usefulness ceased when the flesh-and-blood man behind him became too plainly visible. In his place is predicted the revival of old, vague phrases: "It is understood at the White House today. . ." "The Administration attitude is. . ." "Someone close to the President said...
...strength and weakness, his human and his prophetic quality, as no other book has done. Mr. Perry has managed with great skill to show many sides of his many-sided subject. There appears not merely the Emerson of sculptors and builders of memorials," there is also the flesh-and-blood Emerson, flying out angrily in the face of what he hates, mourning the death of his son, or grimly reticent after minor disaster, as in his laconic entry one day: "House burned." The book is brief enough to be read even in our busy times, and read it deserves...
MOHAMMED-R. F. Dibble-Viking Press ($3). The ruses, power, loves, teachings of a flesh-and-blood prophet...
...were the book free from all the defects which I have mentioned, it would still be open to criticism from its lack of humanity, or more explicitly, the element of human nature in the characters. The adventures and for tunes of the actors are those of no flesh-and-blood creations, and the book lacks the vividness and realness of the truly great novels and romances of the world. And this fault is a great one in the opinion of all who see a novel's greatness in its truth to human nature, and not in a clever plot...