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The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that co ...
The contrast between Leonardo and Michelangelo is an allegory of the arts of modern times. Leonardo left copious notes of his obse ...
"I wonder what life means," said my friend when he had apparently just been thinking. "I have no idea," I volunteered in my cheerf ...
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans ...
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as a ...
Side by side with the Marxists of the northern cities, flourishing in the same situation and starting from the same premise, there ...
... throughout the ages down to modern times, conditions of imprisonment, what with overcrowding, idleness, and all their attendan ...
As to Mr. Lincoln's name and fame and memory,--all is safe. His firmness, moderation, goodness of heart; his quaint humor, his per ...
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity to ...
... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and relig ...
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