Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The issue of debate has long since ceased to be whether or not the Glee Club was justified in withdrawing from a contest the character of which it did not consider high enough to be worth while. Various enticing ramifications of the subject have been discovered. Every week some alumnus...
Especially does he so inquire if he is an artist--not the mental midget of pseudo-aesthetic tendencies, but the occasional person who wants to create rather than criticize, to build rather than to fresco other people's buildings with the rococo delineations of his embryonic criticism. He is mentally...
"Goethe's humanity shines brightly in his written works. He does not lead us into a fairyland where we may find luxurious rest and aesthetic enjoyment in the contemplation of inane beauty, but presents to us plain reality.
"Goethe believed he had a mission in life. No man has ever accomplished anything, great and small, unless he believed in his mission. Goethe conceived his mission in life to be primarily ethical, not aesthetic. The poet, he says, is at the same time teacher, prophet, friend of gods and...
The Author. Events in the life of Willa Sibert Gather in no way reflect her steady growth from a college-girl reporter on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader to a deanship in American letters. Born of Virginian parents 49 years ago, she grew up in Nebraska, attending that state's...