Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...industry and profession, this outlook is needed to make life really worth while, how much greater is the need in the fields of art? All that music, that literature, painting or sculpture live for is the individual contribution to the beauty or significance of the world, which springs from enthusiasm and conviction. To perform this contribution, the artist must not be thinking of how it will be received. That is the death-knell of inspiration...
Music Needs Enthusiasm...
...vigorous and novel views be regarded here in that he is one of the distinguished leaders of the present Neo-realistic movement which is a reaction against the old extremes of naturalism and idealism. His most brilliant works, "Principia Mathematica" (1910) and "Problems of Philosophy" (1911) aroused a revolutionary enthusiasm among the Syounger and rising philosophers of the present generation. His visit will undoubtedly be a great factor in paving the way for a revival of Harvard's position as the mecca of philosophers as it had been when the so-called "Harvard Group" of philosophers--James, Palmer, Santayana...
...classical criticism has generally and consciously essayed: he can apply himself to the privilege of discrimination and seek to arrive at an ultimate valuation of the different works of ancient literature. The moment has at last come when we may disembarass the Classics of the glamour that the humanistic enthusiasm of the Renaissance cast over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope to view the past in proper perspective. Some monuments of Greek and Roman literature we shall have to depreciate, but others, in compensation, we shall esteem more highly, because more intelligently, than ever before...
...omission which one finds in the number is that although most of the con- tents deal with the minor sports, there is no article on the minor sport which has recently excited more enthusiasm than any other, boxing...