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What is the solution? None! without a radical change in the student attitude. Such a change as I am about to suggest would indeed be miraculous owing to congenital cussedness, original sin, or whatever name you want to give it. When the student ceases to boast of the B or C he got and begins to boast of the new stock of knowledge he has acquired and the new ideas such knowledge has engendered, then and only then will your crusade be won. Short of this there are only palliative. Of course, the Corporation might hire persons to organize...
...hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini, one of the laziest and wittiest of all composers, wrote his Solemn Mass in 1863 at the age of 71, called it his "last mortal sin," marked one passage Allegro Cristiano (quick but Christian), confessed he did not know whether it was "musique sacrée ou sacrée musique" (sacred or accursed music), made one tenor solo, Domine Deus, sound like a swashbuckler's serenade, and directed that the composition should be sung...
Next to Salome's, the most popular of operatic strip teases is that of Massenet's sin-shunning Thais. Because dramatic sopranos with decently strippable figures are rare, and because Massenet's music and drama are otherwise soupy and dull, Thais is nowadays seldom performed. Greatest of all Thais strippers was famed Diva Mary Garden, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1907; last at Manhattan's Metropolitan was tempestuous Maria Jeritza, 13 years ago. Last week the Metropolitan revived Thais, in one of the most lavishly costumed productions of its recent years. This...
...McKinsey had anticipated a small cotton crop. When it turned out huge, the manufacturing division lost heavily on its large cotton orders. Even worse, Professor McKinsey never saw Depression II coming at all and the manufacturing division's top-heavy inventories perfectly exemplified U. S. business' 1937 sin. By year's end the manufacturing division had lost some $5,000,000, Marshall Field & Co. itself $1,654,451-and Mr. McKinsey himself was dead...
...father wrote a tract credited with converting thousands of wild Indians.) At seven, after a hard-fought spiritual struggle, he attained Grace. "Since I attained the state of Sanctification," Author Smith testifies, "I have never felt the slightest twinge of conscience, never experienced for one second the sense of sin...