Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cyrena van Gordon, noted American contralto of the Chicago Civic Opera Company who sang a leading part in Wagner's "Lohengrin", said this in her suite in the Hotel Ritz Carlton yesterday afternoon. Miss van Gordon pointed out that after all, an artist was a human being. She was especially prejudiced against men who carp at traces of individuality in the work of operatic artists...
...this is especially true of the opera. Love is the medium that is used to introduce our most beautiful arias in fact, the action of the opera might be considered more informal than that of the regular drama, and because of that, it is, in my opinion more human, and also more modern. Since the way you know, even Americans are becoming informal...
...Among other things it must be remembered that Chinese culture has its roots in ancient times," Dr. Hornbeck said, "and government in China has always been a matter of persons. Confucius laid down the fundamentals of human conduct in precepts for the relation between ruler and the subject, husband and wife, parent and child, senior and junior, friend and friend...
...farsightedness and the breadth of vision that brought about such a step is one of the most encouraging aspects of contemporary affairs. In them two fundamental elements of human life, long opposed to one another, have been wedded. Each should benefit from the new association...
Astrology. Hardly to be mentioned in the same breath with the above phenomena is the science of astrology, famed father of astronomy. Whether or not one believes in the influence of stars on human destiny, there is no denying that reputable astrologists go about their work with the precision of a mathematician. In New York State, for example, the practice of astrology has been legalized on a par with medicine and law. And last week in Ohio the State Supreme Court upheld licensed astrologers, but in a rather backhanded way. It grouped astrologers with other fortune-tellers under the definition...