... engaging to learn that Richard Wagner, the celebrated German composer, whose brilliant, sensitive mind produced such magnificent music as "Tristan and Isolde" and scores of other beautifully, moving compositions, was an anti-Semitic bigot. More recently, I saw on ... of rejection. John the Baptizer projected an almost repulsive profile, clothing himself in camel-hair, consuming locusts and wild honey, and barking out hut one singsong message; "Repent!" He was thought to be eccentric, crude, and unenlightened. ...
