Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This child who is credited with saying of James Cabell that "Jurgen is his most artistic conception", that "his name is destined to live, to become a classic", this infant who believes American literature a dreary 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...
...fall of her quiet dress, hearing voices fade, footsteps pass; Millet's "Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of François Boucher, the courtier who painted ceilings with the grace of miniatures; and "1814" by Ernest Meissonier, filled with the pomp of banners, stations, mustaches, and death...
...best one act play ever written--A veritable classic," exclaimed Ethel Barrymore. "I have acted in 'The Twelve Pound Look' on various occasions for nearly twenty years, and I always come back to it. When I cannot be in an exceptionally fine larger play, I invariably resort to this...
...What classic of U. S. literature has been produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Bunching at the turn, widening along the fence, looping down past the grandstand they came, entries in last week's revival (in Chicago) of the American Derby, one-time "classic." A florid gentleman in a Panama looked benignly at the scene. He was Colonel E. R. Bradley of Lexington, Ky., owner of a brown horse named Boot to Boot, whose jockey, working his legs like a frog, drew under the wire, a winner by two lengths. The race put $89,000 in Colonel Bradley's pocket, was the fifth derby his stable has taken this year...