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...many a dramatist, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany partakes of the nature of a ceremony in 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...
...concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that in 1922 there were very few tomans in the Treasury, scarcely an official not addicted to taking bribes and hardly a rich man who did not successfully evade his taxes...
Their summer climate is ideal, healthful, and invigorating; the temperature moderate in the daytime and invariably cool at night...
...year-old daughter of Publisher-Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the loud Chicago Tribune, louder New York Daily News and vulgar Liberty (weekly)*, is thought to favor her father. Her older sister, Elinor, took to the high art of drama when Producer Morris Gest found that she was ideal for the nun in his U. S. Miracle (TIME, Feb. 15, 1925). But journalism is good enough for Alicia Patterson. Some three months ago she undertook to gather pearls for the Daily News to cast before its million-odd readers...
...places of museum architecture in America. The pivot and center of the building is a great court bordered on three sides by arcades and on the fourth by a grill behind which are situated a number of cubicles and private studies connecting with the library. The court is "the ideal of the Museum expressed in stone." H. R. Shepley '09, in his designing of this court, spent a number of months abroad...