Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evil is one of the oldest classics of human nature. It is usually taught by people morally illiterate and mentally corrupt, when it should be an important part of the education of youth, taught as a classic, carefully analyzed and defined with reference to preparing adolescent people for dealing intelligently rather than emotionally or weakly with instincts-not merely of the body but of the mind...
...Plan of Study." No great sagas fancifully encrust the childhood of "Charlie" Hughes. He was born April 11, 1862 at Glens Falls, N. Y. His father, a Welsh immigrant, was a Baptist minister, poor in goods, rich in classic learning. The boy at five started school at Oswego, N. Y., only to return to his father a few weeks later with a paper written by him and headed: "Charles Evans Hughes' Plan of Study." After that he was taken out of school, given home instruction by his parents. The family moved to Newark, N. J., then on to New York...
...steamship crossed the Pacific, Mei Lan-fang's tender, childlike visage belied the mature perplexities that crowded his small head. The difficulties in presenting Chinese drama to an Occidental public are considerable. For Chinese drama is not Classic or Romantic, realistic or idealistic, sentimental or satiric?it does not fit in any of the categories which Occidental critics have devised to describe Occidental literature. Chinese drama is a formalized, ancient ritual, a subtle play of gesture, expression and intonation in which each turn of the eyeball, each crook of the finger, has definite significance. A Chinese actor succeeds...
...which, needless to say, will not be judged. With his royal brush the Son of Heaven had painted ideographs meaning: I muse on the strength of the rocks Enduring the ceaseless beating of the waves On the rugged shores. There was no more, for poems in the best Japanese classic style of vers de societe are always short, frequently epigram matic. Such poems are intended not to mirror thought, but to stimulate it. Among the greatest Japanese epigrams are a sequence of three...
...polite Japanese conversation one or more of the three classic epigrams bobs up whenever there is need to deal with stubbornness of any kind. The epigrams were originally coined to describe three great Japanese generals, the first a violent and impetuous general; the second, persuasive and adroit; the third, cautious and patient-and all three successful in their campaigns...