Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saul and his three sons die in the battle of Gilboa while the Israelites march ("The Lament of Gilboa"). A women's chorus of solo voices proclaims David King of Israel. David's humility has gone flying away with the pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord; calamities confront his house. The music, from a gloating minor, rises steadily with blood-burning cymbals and a strump of drums; David dances, David prances, licks his red-hot lips and glances at Bathsheba. Absalom revolts, is killed. David rides in triumph through...
...that the Harvard squad charges and blocks and tackles all afternoon, and it is not for sheer love of sport that they are now getting ready to grind through signal practice by artificial light. In fact, all this practicing is mighty hard work; ever so much more work than brain work. There is a malicious popular belief that football players are not naturally inclined toward brain work. This is unfair: football players have merely chosen the sterner course. Many more fail at this course than at brain-courses. Only a few men each year, out of dozens of candidates...
...These characters engage in a sort of Jekyll-Hyde conflict, terminating in a decision to love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play is supposed to take place in the brain of a man in half a second's time. Novel scenic effects heighten the realism and emotional effect of the play...
...most outstanding characteristic of Goethe is his humanity. Of him, more perhaps than of any other man, it may be said that nothing human was foreign to him. . . . He liked to associate with persons of every class and kind, brain workers and hand workers, for they all were human, and from all he could learn . . . . A natural total depravity of the human heart was to him inconceivable...
Philosophy 1: "This course in elementary logic probably does as much good for the brain as swinging Indian clubs in Hemenway Gymnasium does for the body. And both forms of exercise are equally exciting. The course consists of parroting a number of logical rules-of-thumb by which the valid may be distinguished from the fallacious with as little thought as possible. At the beginning of the year, Dr. Sheffer supplied his students with a multigraphed outline of these rules, by memorizing which the more receptive of his students received passing grades in the final examination, which was highly logical...