Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Artists often wonder, said Mrs. Fiske, if they are doing any good when they compare their art with practical human work which supplies a pressing need. The justification of the drama must be found in its power to soften the brutal instincts which lie hidden in every man. Acting today is becoming specialized, and the range of actors is growing smaller. The actors of the past generation were better in Shakespearian roles than modern actors: but today plays are perfectly mounted and the actors excel in showing the problems of every day life. In modern plays there is less outward...
...conclusion, Dr. Crothers emphasized the essential part which faith, hidden in the hearts of many men, plays in the fullest realization of immortality...
...music--a wonderfully suggestive combination of allegory, fancy, comedy and tragedy, differing essentially in these points from the music of Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven's immediate predecessors. Their music, typical of the taste of the eighteenth century, is more obvious, making a direct appeal and containing no suggestion of hidden meaning. To illustrate his remarks Mr. Surette played nearly the whole quartet on the pianola, laying particular stress on certain difficult and important passages...
...nation, and to brave misrepresentation and obloquy. Furthermore, the leader should possess sympathies so democratic, that, while above his followers, he may yet understand them and be one of them. True leaders are not cynics, but men who can aid and evoke in others bidden powers and hidden good...
...business men who can unite the great organizations of labor and capital, journalists who care more for truth than for subscribers, doctors who are regardless of fees won in practice--men, in short, who care more for principles than for victory, and who must have implicit faith in a hidden power which is constantly working for the ultimate victory of good...