"Barry supported the lady, whose voice was not powerful enough for the big auditorium. I asked him how she succeeded—I was at another theatre. "Obscene but not heard," he answered."
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Cf. Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), ch. 35
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James Huneker
James Gibbons Huneker (31 January 1857 – 9 February 1921) was an American music writer and critic. Huneker was one of the first to write of Gauguin, Ibsen, Wagner, Nietzsche, France, van Gogh, and George Moore.
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