Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligently, they may provide the motive power to carry human culture and human happiness to the new high levels of the future. . . . Orderliness, obedience, conformity, chastity, monogamy, such ideals are valid only if they promote deeper and more vital values; only if they serve to bring personalities into blossom; only if they call out to the full the possibilities of the self; only if they make for rich, intense, growing, creative experience. Morality must be a means, not an end." ? Professor Hornell Hart of Bryn Mawr...
...Sumida River (1) and little Kanda River (2), his Majesty can state as an eyewitness are still flowing. Buds are sprouting in the "Cherry Blossom Parks": Shiba (3), Hibiya (4), Uyeno (5), and Hama Rikyu (6), which is every year the scene of the Imperial Cherry Blossom Garden Party. Different is Asakusa Park (7), a "Coney Island," incongruously surrounding the Sacred Temple of the Goddess of Mercy...
...Geki is far easier for Occidentals to understand than the hoary dramatic rituals of China, in which scarcely any scenery is employed and such an apparently unimportant factor as the shape of a false beard may indicate the character of its wearer. In Koi-No- Yozakura (Romance in Cherry Blossom Lane) a sculptor creates the image of a dancing girl which comes to life and dances with him when he places a mirror, the Japanese symbol of a woman's soul, next to her heart. The speech is naturally modulated, emotions are patent on the faces, the scenery...
Fourteen years ago when Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows, founded the independents, there was scarcely a place in New York where artists who had broken with the academic tradition could show their work. Today modernist galleries blossom in all the side streets, the discovery of artistic talent has become as highly organized as philanthropy, so that Mediocrity appears excellent by contrast with the average. The Independents are, of course, the average...
...good wines, good drams, and the niceties of the tender passion. It is pleasant to find that even the French, recognized specialists along those lines, realize that another well-populated nation has learned how to make love. This transportation and transplanting of the gentler arts of living to blossom like a rose even in the desert lands around Salt Lake City marks another triumph under the banner of the dollar sign. Bitter will be American globe-trotters and steamship lines when the culture-minded will see America last as well as first and hesitate to venture into barbarous and depleted...