Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tradition. The eye sees a head, a landscape, a pattern of concrete objects. All traditional Art, admitting as important this thing seen, accents the reaction of the artist to what he sees, recognizes as an accidental requisite to the presentation of subject and the personality of the artist, the element of style-form, line, color. The artist, running at tradition's stirrup, has employed style as a thrilling, necessary but irrelevant mechanism for the exaltation of personality, of subject; yet it is only by virtue of this mechanism that he is an artist at all. He succeeds or fails...
...battleship is the element of ultimate force in the fleet, and all other elements are contributory to the fulfilment of its function as the final arbiter in sea warfare...
...Aviation has taken its place as an element of the fleet and cannot be separated from...
Thus did Senator LaFollette get what he wanted, but to unsympathetic observers, it seemed less as if this were the founding of a new party and more as if it were the disintegration of a temporary alliance. There were no outbursts of ill-feeling, but quietly the Labor element of the LaFollette organization dropped out; and it is expected that the Socialist element, balked of its demand for a "class" party, will do likewise...
...little to do with writing. I think it has. I believe that it is important that the public recover from the impression that writing is the mere sitting down with white paper before one and turning out a story that sells and sells and sells. After all, the element of luck has not played a large part in Miss Ferber's career. It was not luck that sold her very first story. It was simply that she was a good reporter, who had turned her reportorial experience into fiction by the process of studying the short stories of others...