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...complex that the adjustment of the machine now receives more attention than the design of the machine itself, and the problems of the society of individuals are obscuring those of the society as a unit whole. This is perhaps the final development of the romantic conception of humanitarianism. WHANG POO...
While neighbors in Richmond, England, shook their heads, lonely little old Ada Littlejohn packed her small trunk last August and sailed for Manhattan. Her husband had died. So had her terrier Jumbo and her canary Nanki-Poo. For Mrs. Ada Littlejohn it seemed at first like just one more tragedy in her life when the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company announced it would give Gilbert & Sullivan in the U.S. this season (TIME, Sept. 17). But then she reckoned her slender income and decided to go along...
Germans have always felt that when an automobile horn sings out "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it ought to mean something. Before the War only Kaiser Wilhelm's family cars were permitted to carry the polyphonic sirens that were known in the U. S. as Gabriel Horns.† When the Kaiser went, any little clerk with an automobile could speak with the four woodland notes of a Gabriel Horn. Last week the Nazis grabbed the Gabriel Horn for themselves. It was decreed that hereafter when an automobile toots "Tee-poo-pee-pa," it will mean that there goes...
...Cincinnati functions the well-named and famous Zoo Opera, numbering among its baritones Robert Ringling, nephew of the Circus poo-bah (TIME, Nov. 28). More ambitious than most, the Cincinnati vocalists intend this year to specialize in Wagner, for he is an idol with local auditors. Later, for the last three weeks of their season, they will concentrate on light opera, especially the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, a source of fatigue to the listening monkeys...
...calculated horror Prince Felix Yussupov, cousin by marriage to Tsar Nicholas II, tells in a book Rasputin* (ras-poo-teen), published in the U. S. last week, how the peasant monk wove a "tangle of dark intrigue, egotistical self-seeking, hysterical madness and vainglorious pursuit of power, which wrapped the throne in an impenetrable web and isolated the monarch from his people"; how in greasy boots he walked over the imperial parquets; how he gained almost complete mastery over the Tsar and Tsarina; how Prince Yussupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri, murdered him in an attempt to deliver the royal...