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...Siegfried watered and warped into a thousand insignificant attempts. But Strauss even then could stand alone. He quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself???the great Strauss. The story, as it was played, followed an old Dutch legend of a mid-summer festival with bonfires & a burgomaster's daughter & a bookish boy too long boxed up. Philadelphia critics, as well as critics who had taken the pilgrimage from other cities, regretted that there...
Being president of Stanford University requires potency in human affairs. Dr. Wilbur took the president's chair in 1916. He immediately busied himself???U. S. Food Administration, California Council of Defense. . . . When Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding was yet candidate for the U. S. Presidency, Dr. Wilbur supported him publicly. At President Harding's death, Dr. Wilbur, with Dr. Charles Miner Cooper, performed the autopsy and prepared the statement of his physical condition "as it affected his last illness and his sudden death in 1923." At that time Dr. Wilbur was President of the American Medical Association, a potent position during...
...this reticence gives the tale an objective ambiguity, as if the type of all desert wanderers, the very ghost of the Golden Horde, rode with Hassanein's thin company along the last frontiers of nomadism. The volume is adorned with many excellent photographs, frontispieced with one of the author himself???no don, but a bold sheik, his falcon features glittering above an expanse of magnificent laundry...
...likes it. He likes its people even though he may recognize their charming weaknesses. He enjoys its clubs and its life. He will impress you, when you chance to meet him, as a pleasant, somewhat detached gentleman who looks at life with the eyes of a reporter, yet lives, himself???a most difficult feat, and one which those cursed with too much sense of humor cannot accomplish. Yet there is no denying Mr. Johnson's sense of humor ?witness The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, the later Skippy Bedelle...