Word: conceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SWORDS AND ROSES-Joseph Hergesheimer-Knopf ($3.50) Author Hergesheimer's concept of the Civil War does not startle. He employs no impelling format such as Stephen Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues...
Will Always Wins. The grand legacy of Marshal Foch to future Generalissimos, and the touchstone of all his victories, is a psychological concept of warfare which he stated thus...
This glorified notion of college must be exploded. And the culture tilt is one way of counteracting the effect of gigantic athletic enterprises, and restoring an old emphasis upon the concept of college and higher education. --The Campus (College of the City of New York...
...Architecture is a collaborative profession; a coordination of efforts to create a work of art to fulfill a definite need within a definite cost. The mind of the architect must interpret the need from another mind, apply it to his imagination, translate the concept to other minds and direct still other hands to give it form and substance and make it fulfill the need for which, and satisfy him for whom, it was created...
...stood and declared that man needs a new concept of God based on science, a concept such as Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, famed modernist preacher, might formulate. He said the ten commandments would have to be revised for this enlightened age. He declared there...