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...when we speak of Christ they suppose we mean a listless, effeminate, oriental ascetic, or else the tyrannical Son of an imperious Father, sent to enforce His laws on an invaded and conquered country. And they think that we mean by religion a daily dozen of don'ts. And they think we mean by salvation the collecting of a spiritual insurance policy, plus a snobbish disdain for the uninsured ninety-and-nine: in the words of the song, 'The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernest von Weber's Der Freischüts was subjected to a revival. This opera, first produced in 1821, is perhaps the ultimate word in heavy German Romanticism. It is a tale of love, of shooting, of dense, dismal forests, of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, satanic spells and supernatural apparitions, ghastly, eerie, gruesome, horrible. But its moral tone is pure and lovely...
...Free bullets," according to legend, are Frelkugeln, subservient to the marksman's will, destined to hit without fail whatever object he wishes. The seventh and last bullet, however, is at the "absolute disposal of the Devil himself." Marksmen who employed Frelkugeln were known as Freischüts...
...there were more thorough, sincere productions of this sort, more shipyard and less "gingerbread an paint", there would likewise be less hue and cry about the decadence of American letters. "Well, 'Glory', ole girl . . . they went an' busted up the shipyard; they went an' filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman's hair. Not much like ye, them yachts. I'd like to see one o'them bo'ts beatin' round the Horn an' up to Californy...
...raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when Kai Lung, previously advised by the Golden Mouse, began to spill a Sheherazade to the noble Mandarin, his initial opus being The Story of Wong Ts'in and the Willow Plate Embellishment. By the time the story was ended it was, of course, too late in the day to execute Kai Lung-and so the days went on-in spite of the degraded persistence of the effete Ming-Shu, Kai Lung always managed to turn...