Word: classicized
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...Jennings Bryan with satiric courtroom questions about his faith in Holy Writ. Six months since pamphlet-scattering mountebanks, itinerant fanatics, land-sharks, pickpockets and cheap-johnny "scientists" jostled in the steaming streets of little Dayton, Tenn. Six months since the nation's press bawled daily headlines about a classic struggle between Reason and Religion, Brains and Bigotry, Science and Superstition...
...issues. Five months later the publisher failed, owing Munsey $1,000 salary. Staggered, Munsey took the magazine in lieu of salary, although the magazine already owed more money than it was worth. Somehow $300 was borrowed, issues were brought out, and Munsey, working 18 hours a day, produced his classic 6,000-word serial, "Afloat in a Great City." As Munsey told the story: "I wanted something to advertise and I put my faith to the test to the extent of ten thousand dollars...
...addition such modern compositions as The Decembrists by Zolotarev, an opera written with a careful historical basis around the famed "Decembrist Revolt" of 1825, and produced this year for the first time to commemorate its 100th anniversary. Likewise, under the direction of M. Goleizovsky, a series of classic ballets and the "ballet satires," Lalo and Don Quixote...
...students of today cannot help being reminded of certain evils which still are found in Harvard education: evils which survive from that antiquated Harvard against which Sparks complained a century ago; evils which, though not Teutonic in genesis, have, nevertheless, a strong German flavor. For German A is the classic example of this fossil remnant of an unenlightened past...
...agree with Mr. Wilson that "Rip Van Winkle" should be revived. It is an interesting adaption of Irving's folk lore classic and it has a charm and mellow homeliness which are found nowhere else with just this flavor. Despite its imperfect dramatic qualities, "Rip Van Winkle" is a delightful play with a wealth of beautiful and quaint effects--a play to be seen and a play long to be cherished in the memory