Word: classically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabonding in Classic Lands" will be the subject of a lecture to be given at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum by Professor W. B. McDaniel '93, of the University of Pennsylvania. The lecture, which will be illustrated by stereopticons, is under the auspices of the Division of Fine Arts and the Boston Society of the Archaeological institute of America...
Already Egypt is influencing fashions and thought today as the classic ideal permeated western civilization in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Egyptian exhibits have become the center of interest for those who have suddenly begun to throng the museums. The latest styles of dress, as the unfailing barometer of interest, are modeled upon Egyptian patterns. Scandal and murder have been driven from the front pages of the newspapers by the spell of Egyptology. Its influence on literature of a more lasting sort depends on the papyri yet hidden in the tomb; more details about the captivity of Israel...
...desire and my purpose to infuse a new spirit, the spirit of jazz, into the classic art of music. Despite the universal execration and condemnation of jazz, the tendency today is along the lines of diatonic music as against chromatic music, the vehicle of expression which Wagner employed. While the Vienese school is still adhering to the chromatic motif, the diatonic tendencies are experiencing a rapid development under the eager minds of Parisian composers...
Unconventionality marked yesterday's Symphony program, the thirteenth of the season. No symphony, no classic, no Germans, Frenchmen, Russians; none of the usual earmarks of a concert in Symphony Hall. But it was not merely unconventional, it was absorbing...
...infinite variety of aim and of technique. There exists in it no general tendency, no trend, no norm. Some of the poets are venturing into that dubious region that lies mid way between prose and verse; others stand immovable with their backs to the safe wall of the old classic verse forms; still others are running the whole gamut between the two extremes. It is a day of experiment and confusion, where tradition has lost its authority, and where revolt has not yet proved its predominance...