Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention, and of importance only as they help or hinder the expression of the poetic idea. But their danger is more obvious in other of Mr. Cowley's poems, where a desperate effort to be "modern" at any cost takes heavy toll from his sense of beauty. The evil effect of this strained modernism, this pursuit of superficial novelty as an end in itself, is of course more operative in all the arts today,--though there are at least a few signs, in painting, that the artists are beginning to discover that it is more original to copy Matisse than...
...regretted that they take it so much for granted that the papers already established will treat the new-comer harshly. We, certainly, are not so bowed down by years that we can consistently look upon every innovation in the literature of the College as a permanent evil. The field the "Lampoon" has chosen by no means encroaches 'upon our ground, even if it did, we should be rather glad than sorry, and we can assure its editors that any jokes at our expense will be taken always in the spirit they are made. Judging from its first number, the paper...
...Regarding the character of Macbeth, there are two diametrically opposite interpretations. In one, he may be regarded as an elemental savage, so destitute of feeling that it takes little urging to send him on his career of evil; while, on the other hand, he may be thought of as a grave and high minded nobleman, suddenly overthrown by ambition. In the very second scene, Shakespere gives us an elaborate laudatory exposition of Macbeth's character. In the third we see him crumble under the influence of the supernatural...
Organized Forces of Evil...
...only are we challenged by the forces of evil, organized and deflant, but we are challenged from another side. More than six million crosses over the graves of young men, most of whom gave their lives under the impression that out of the strife and sacrifice and laying down of life, a better world was to dawn. These crosses challenge us to awake, and it is to young America especially that this challenge comes...