Word: prig
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...champions the old Gregorian music like a Sir Kay; to him all church choirs not consecrated to the old plain chant are "merely formed for the use of tenors and fat women." Wagner, he says, "dissatisfied with the figure of the historic Christ, transformed him into a German prig with a nasty-minded distrust of feminity". That's Parsifal! There's plenty of go in the Monthly still. Mr. Pichel in his helpful "note" on Strindberg,--which, by the way, was written before Strindberg's death--does not find it necessary to be so vehement. That "note" suggests the query...