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...maidens in red tights. This performance was a caricature and profanation -unintended, of course, but none the less a profanation of great music. There is hardly any music more self-sufficient than Bach's or more beyond the power of words or pictures to convey. It is the purest and most absolute music, altogether sufficient unto itself. It should be held sacred from meddling. . . . There should be limits to a practice by which dancers, who apparently are without feeling for the true essence of music, may rush in where angels would fear to tread and jauntily misrepresent masterpieces...
...This work of legislation might be likened to a flower, not only those flowers that grow here under your Texas sun, but you might have a flower which is the purest, the most beautiful of all flowers, the flower of charity, the flower which indicates we love our fellowman...
...captured Peking, preferably several times. Absolutely nothing was known last week of the strength or nature of the forces with which Comet Wu suddenly appeared on the Yangtsze River in central China. As usual the "Scholar War Lord" heralded his approach with an exquisitely worded manifesto in purest classic script which his mysterious agents distributed to diplomatic representatives of the Great Powers in China...
...wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased by His Majesty's Government to supply the prisoner with his favorite beverage: goat's milk...
...smug" society of an early edition of "Leaves of Grass" Speaking of this society Mr. Morris has this to say: "They had probably understood nothing of the text but those passages which they alleged to be objectionable. Thus the guest of Emerson and Sanborn and the finest and purest men and women of Boston and Concord, the friend of Tennyson and Longfellow, and of Mrs. Gilchrist was found unclean by an anonymous group who were unqualified to receive the rich message he brought them...