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...really surprising that he had continued his fruitless efforts as long as he had, except that he was an Englishman, an artist, an idealist. Never able to respect the academic or conventional mind, he left Oxford before he had finished. Aged 19, he toured England with the Kelson Truman Opera Company, wrote three operas himself. In a few years he turned to symphony work, presenting highly unorthodox programs which were marked with deep musical scholarship as well as youth's impetuous revolt. Calm, neat, leisurely, absentminded, he lavished ?100,000 ($486,000) on his first season of opera...
...know what was going on a short distance outside of space during the week which preceded the beginning of time. TIME almost knows that, however, and wonder at the comprehensive material presented in the soul of wit of its welcomed weekly pages. . . . Being an idealist with a desire to see everybody excepting myself good and correct at all times I observed an error of statement in a recent number of TIME. According to the editor breeding places of all but four of our North American birds were known. I naturally asked about Ross's goose which had been left...
Ambassador Herrick praised the genius of Mrs. Whitney and then went on to "scotch the lie" that the U. S. is becoming a greedy materialist instead of the idealist who entered the war. He finished by quoting Byron: Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate...
...Harry Payne Whitney's group to commemorate the landing of U. S. troops at St. Nazaire was there-an eagle with 35 feet of tensile wingspread alighting on French soil with a virile young idealist on his back. One marveled at the power this slight Mrs. Whitney can put forth...
...conservative temper of his Socialism was made evident from his speeches at that time: "As a Socialist I am averse to terror. I wish every man to see a brother in his neighbor." As everyone knows, Pilsudski remains a bluff, benevolent, illogical, fighting idealist...