Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greenwich Villagers, in their own little theatre on Grove Street, parade the Truth that nothing is less likely to succeed as professional entertainment than an amateurish revue...
Artists, remembering figures on old vases of boys holding the wild, light reins of hurrying chariots, marble men lounging on their pedestals in an effortless perfection, men behind plows or on top of girders shoving or straining in to a sudden rapid beauty, could not deny some element of truth in these remarks. Nor could they regard the term "beauty show" as applied to a procession of pseudonymphs kept decently warm by hairpins and the emblem of their hometowns as more than a misappellation, not to be corrected by the inclusion of seminaked gentlemen...
...Miss) MARY FAIRFAX Chicago, Ill. Let not Teacher Fairfax continue to "censor" from TIME such truth ful items as that to which she takes exception, but rather explain with patience the distinction, ob vious though...
...Vacuum and Standard of New York state the truth, namely, that, as they fancy it pays them better to deal in cheap Russian oil, they do not care for the rest of the world and especially not for the American oil producers, as Vacuum looks upon the whole matter from the point of view that they are oil traders wishing to buy in the cheapest market and are not concerned with the American crude production? From an exclusively trading point of view this position only seems to be right, but it is a short view and the folly...
...honor of a saint. The saint is Richard Wagner, who stated-and lived according to his statement-that the artist's function is a religious one, to lead the public mind "by ideal representation of the allegorical picture to the comprehension of the inner essence, the divine, unspeakable Truth." To that end, he composed his series of operas, drama-music spectacles called Der Ring des Niebe-lungen, knowing full well that they could never be adequately presented by conventional opera companies under conventional conditions.They would require a special theatre, a special ensemble, a special audience, a special period...