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What the uproar will seem like to those who have never come within the circle I do not know. To convey to them the quality of the devotion which his pupils feel is like trying to explain to one who never heard him the spell which Garrick cast upon his audience. For the Copey of his pupils is not to be found in works of art, in books that anyone may read, in contributions to knowledge which all can share. He is a teacher who has drawn out of a long succession of pupils whatever native gifts they...
Under cover of the ensuing darkness highly organized criminal gangs held all London in a spell of fear. The only protection against them was a handful of aged watchmen who were primarily interested in keeping out of harm's way. In the suburbs there weren't even watchmen, and to get, an unarmed coach into the city after dark was almost a miracle...
...love. In Götterdämmerung the emotional range is so extended that few singers have been able to compass it successfully. In the first act a great Brünnhilde must be tender, exuberantly happy. In the second act bewilderment turns to blazing rage. Under the spell of one of Wagner's convenient potions, Siegfried has tricked her, given her to another. A great Brünnhilde is spine-chilling when she brands the hero as a traitor, swears it by an oath on a spear and then helps plot his death...
...seven games this season. The Blue riders, Bill Rand, Jr., and last year's Freshman stars, Peter and Bayard Dominick have beaten P.M.C. and lost to West Point by close scores, but they have not played as much as has the Harvard combine, and this lack of experience may spell defeat for the visitors...
...subtitle of this work, "The Source and Genesis of Modernistic Art," describes adequately the scope of the book. Mr. Fry very ably and convincingly sets forth the thesis that modernistic art is a kind of neurosis that "has cast its baleful spell over American esthetic culture...