Word: genius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Phil. Harmonic, who has a genius for improvising old tunes, H. Schurz...
...monument to his memory, which will last as long as the city of Boston, and which is the product of his own genius, is the Metropolitan Park System of Boston. He was influential in arousing interest in this undertaking in the beginning, and later the plans were in great part entrusted...
...Park Theatre looms up with a success of the most promounced type and of the musical comedy genius. "Lost, Strayed or Stolen," as presented here, is a work so enjoyable given with a company so efficient, with mountings so sumptuous and costumes so dainty and Parisian as to warrant the oft-repeated line in the announcements that heralded the Boston opening of this work: "Three Hours in Paris." The company provided by Miner and Brooks includes more thoroughly first class people than is often seen in one organization of any kind. The comedians, eight in number, are among the oldest...
...self-concentration so characteristic of the Greeks she has given us a style beyond criticism; for the French by this self-centred interest developed a rigid self-criticism, which was the parent of an excellent style. Unlike English, we find in French literature no flashes of genius; but on the other hand we do find that consistent mediocrity which the English so strikingly lacks...
...French influence, produced some creditable short stories, with which French literature abounds. This is exactly what all writers of English, who hope to attain excellence of literary form, should do; for only by contagion can this excellent characteristic be acquired. What we most need is not an education for genius-that we already possess-but we do need to gain this preciseness of form which is so admirable in French literature...