Word: chautauquas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Horse Latitudes. None of this is new. But when Miller moves from the tropics of sex into the horse latitudes of philosophy, something takes over that could hardly be matched by a whole chautauqua of oldtime New Thought charlatans but which nevertheless establishes Miller's importance-not for what he says but for what he is, a man who, in many different forms, rejects the Western tradition and abdicates its heavy honors. These forms include anarchy and fascism, atheism and religiosity, nihilism and authoritarianism, sex-as-an-act and sex-as-salvation, pacifism and violence, futurism and the cult...
Died. Judith Lyndon Welch, 67, onetime Chautauqua lecturer on Negro folklore and wife for 39 years of Joseph Nye Welch, quizzical, quick-thinking Boston attorney who tilted effectively with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings; after long illness; in Boston...
...Lewis, Dreiser, Cather, Pound. Fitzgerald) were discovered or trundled by Mencken in his happy days as co-editor (with George Jean Nathan) of the Smart Set (1914-23) and the old American Mercury (1924-33). He took out after U.S. criticism, which he said "smells of the pulpit, the chautauqua, the schoolroom...
Place of Resort. Though the big boom is recent. Americans have always been self-improvers. In the 1830s they flocked to Lyceums; later, they went to the Chautauqua: still later, they attacked the five-foot shelf. Meanwhile, the professional educators took on the adult population themselves. In 1890 President-elect William Rainey Harper of the University of Chicago proclaimed it the duty of every university to "provide instruction for those who, for social or economic reasons, cannot attend its classrooms." In 1904, the New York City Department of Education declared the school to be not only "a nursery for children...
Died. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, 68, whose appointment as U.S. Minister to Denmark (1933-36) made her America's first woman diplomat; of a coronary thrombosis; in Copenhagen. Daughter of three-time Democratic Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan, at one time she taught public speaking, lectured on the Chautauqua circuit, served in the House of Representatives (1929-33), found greatest happiness as Minister to Denmark but had to resign in 1936 when she married Borge Rohde, a captain in the King's palace guards...