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Prior to the dawn of this age Hercules held the world's record for infantile achievement. Since his day, however, standards are higher. His vulgar strangling act was but the rude and distant precursor of a Children's Crusade in all the arts...
...feature. For a moderate consideration, any city editor can now have a model of sincere, constructive, idealistic thought and writing against which to contrast the "blowsy," "slipshod" language of the news columns, the "drivel" he lets "slide under his nose," the "transparent absurdities," the "trivialities and puerilities." To his vulgar, ignorant cub reporter, a city editor may now say: "Go thou and read our column by Mr. Mencken and be a better...
...French plays are clean morally," he went on to say. "Americans go to Paris and see somewhat vulgar plays. They go to midnight cabarets, and places of that sort. Then they return and say that French morals are low. It is not true. These plays are produced to amuse foreigners, and thus to make money. The French people do not go to them. Besides Paris is not France, any more than New York is the United States. People go to Paris and returns. They think they know France. They're wrong...
...play is vulgar and profane; but war is vulgar and profane. It is the vulgarity and profanity that goes inevitably with the organized murder which is war. We are not in favor of increasing the use of profanity on the stage; but, if a playwright is to draw a picture of army life, how else is he to accomplish...
...tween life in the Garden of Eden and life in the 'artistic' quarter of Gomorrah. . . . "The people who compose popular tunes are not musicians enough .to be able to invent new forms of expression. All they do is adapt the discoveries of great men to the vulgar taste. . . . Beethoven is responsible, because it was he who first devised really effective mu- sical methods for the direct expression of passion and emotions. Beethoven's passion and emotions happened to be noble. But, unhappily, he made it pos sible for people of infinitely inferior mind and character to express...