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...gone to no extremes. He believes thoroughly in the value of the competitive spirit and of inter-institutional games; where he rightly draws the line is at the point where athletics cease to be a means to better standards of physical health, and threaten instead to over shadow and even to undermine the principle of balanced development which is the aim of modern education...
...Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, silent since 1914, although its Barcarolle is familiar enough; Charpentier's Louise; Verdi's Falstaff with Antonio Scotti; and perhaps also Mozart's Don Giovanni. Galli-Curci will probably make her much-heralded Manhattan debut in Dinorah, in which the Shadow Song can be depended upon to raise the audience from their seats...
...obviously an ardent admirer, she was also too close a friend not to recognize the many weaknesses, eccentricities and faults that go hand in hand with genius; these she has faithfully recounted. The London Times ranks this biography as "fit to stand, if not beside at least in the shadow of Boswell's immortal portrait of Samuel Johnson...
...violence is based upon an immutable belief in the goodness which exists deep down in all human nature. . . . We need not hate Englishmen, though we hate the system they have established. They have given India a system based on force, by which they can feel secure only in the shadow of their forts and guns. We Indians, in turn, hope by our conduct to demonstrate to every Englishman that he is as safe in the remotest corner of India as he professes to feel behind the machine...
...author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...