Word: aristotelianism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down with a deep tankard of Canary. . . . "Ben sleeps heavily, and awakes the next morning in a dripping sweat, but with brave notions. . . . He always writes under these conditions. His drunken, salty sweat seems to bring him inspiration." Thus Author Steele in what he calls a "poetically [in the Aristotelian sense] true conception" of Ben Jonson. There is no necessity to justify, as he attempts, fictionized biography; the public has accepted it as its best communication with the past. The Ben Jonson we have here is a lovable, disgusting, Falstaffian figure who drinks, slops, fights, sweats, writes lovely lyrics...
...Aristotelian Logic", Professor Perry, Emerson A, Philosophy...
...waste and that the "classics" are so much tripe a this pig-tailed mistress of an art most difficult to attain, most demanding, both in skill and experience, justifies the existence of those who, though narrow and crabbed and dogmatic, stick to their guns and send the truths of Aristotelian sanity against the hordes of philanderers in the fields of the liberal arts...
...current Yale Review an article on Realism in the modern theatre. Here he tries to show that there is, in addition to and more important than the the exterior reality, the internal truth, the truth most akin to the universal. Here is departing not one whit from Aristotelian precepts. The Executive Editor of Liberty might read Stark Young's article. It may be more easily obtained on Park Avenue than the Poetics. At all events, as the editor of a paper which is supposedly attempting to place some semblance of truth before the eyes of its probably sanguine readers...
There is a place for everything and everything in its place--and that is not the grass of the Yard. When the bovine and divine contact little is left of the Aristotelian ambition for a thinking man--and yet--one must admit that the stones of Widener steps grow no softer with the years. So perhaps these Rousseauistic recumbants are a bit justified--perhaps...