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...benefit of those who know the name and not the substance of the Peter Pan legend, let it be said that Peter is a figure of eternal youth who takes certain mortal children to his strange Never Never Land and there introduces them to curious adventures with Indians and Pirates. In the end, the mortal children leave him and he bids them adieu from his home in the Never Never treetops...
Said The New York Times: "His was a life richly colored and abundantly lived. Never again, in all likelihood, can a single mortal span cover so much that is vital and picturesque...
...Eliot and others who regard the phase as worth one lota (of anything) to be considered, imply that greater bodily strength or more masterful physique are of mortal value to the world, then I say that it is much easier to impart this to Jews by blood, than to wait centuries until Jews return to muscle-building trades. Surely, you who praise immediate action and results, efficiency in short, cannot scoff at such an effective (though ludicrous) plan as I offer: and besides, if I am not mistaken, Mendel's units would substantiate my argument on the results, physically...
Where shirts are black and blood runs hot, challenges to mortal combat are by no means out of fashion. But enlightened Italian society does not impugn a man of high station if, in the rush of affairs, he finds it more convenient to surrender his duelling privileges to some staunch friend...
...Koussevitzky Americans see a musician brought up upon Mozart, Beethovan, Wagner, Chopin, who ought, to their way of thinking, oppose jazz music in mortal combat. With Americans it is the rule that only those to whom the wall of saxophones, the blare of trombones, and the clash of brass are indigenous, can see in jazz anything but degenerate sensuality. Not so Koussevitzky. Without forsaking the classics, he calls jazz "good music". So pronounced became his modern tendencies that Moscow thought him too radical, and he left Russia. But he went, not to Paris, where he was indeed invited...