Word: ideal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON THEATRE.- Boston Ideal Opera Co, in "The Bohemian Girl...
...logical in his search for a profession. Instead of looking for the higher types among the lawyers, the doctors and the ministers, he seems to have chosen very inferior men as the proper representatives of their classes. He certainly lost sight of the possibilities of that devotion to an ideal which must be present in all leaders of men. The story is useful, perhaps, because it shows us just what we should not do; that is, judged of any profession by its worst side...
BOSTON THEATRE.- Boston Ideal Opera Co, in "The Bohemian Girl...
BOSTON THEATRE.- Boston Ideal Opera Co, in "Carmen...
...beauty, and why should their example not be followed to-day? The present situation is critical. Education tends to mere materiality, and here lies the great danger of our times. What are our young poets doing to resist this tendency, and how are they advancing the cause of the ideal? In London they do mere dilettante work; they are wedded to sonnets, triolets and rondeaus. They spend their time in a mere elaboration of saying nothing, instead of appealing to the people. William Morris has recently entered upon the true task of the poet. He sees that as life...