Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magda forgets her initial caution and attempts to explain the life she has led away from home. Immediately the colonel's conception of honor is outraged, his family name has been irretrievably degraded, and all the household compassed in the ruin of one daughter. To his stiff-necked, unyielding idea of honor the only remedy lies through the bloody channels established by time and tradition. From this point the action might proceed to any one of many conclusions. Sudermann very wisely sees the struggle through, shows it up in its many phases, and leaves the future undetermined...
...Chilean ambassador to the United States cannot seem to fall in with the traditions of the North American film at all. He rather objects, for instance, to the idea that all children from south of the Rio Grande grow up to be craven desperadoes to be slaughtered or knocked out by iron-fisted vigilantes with curly hair, alleged Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and IT. He has a sort of a case, perhaps. But these Latins never seem to have a proper sense of good, clean fun and don't understand what an important and necessary part they play in film land...
...anger. A tremor passed down the lupine spine off big Boris, too, and that very afternoon he was so sentimental about Rennie's glossy brown coat and hang-down ears that Tessa, his Russian-temperamental fiancee, bit him on all four legs. Golden Toes had no idea what it was all about and disported himself as usual, taunting his sister, Poppit-"Runt-o! Runt you are!" he would bark-and tumbling over his own ears. But the others were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut...
...This idea of freedom, and adaptation to individual aptitudes, also runs through the new system of the department for Honors in English. Hereafter students may follow either of two plans (each of which requires a thesis). The more general plan, intended for men whose aim is what may be called general cultivation, requires at least five elective courses in English, one of which must be in the earlier English literature. Three additional courses may be either in English or in allied fields. It is expected that men who pursue this system will read particularly widely. The other plan is intended...
...figure, not only because of the music to which the Vagabond is an ardent convert -- but because of the man himself. Unquestionably, the composer's greatest works were written not merely for the sake of the music as is usually the case but as much to embody his philosophical ideas and theories. Wagner was what one might call a musical-dramatist; he was also a stony socialist of the romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make up "The Ring", for which as in his other operas he himself wrote the librette, he sets forth, for example...