Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreement with the protest cannot conceal the fact that it is still a protest against the whole spirit of the time, which can express itself only through the instrumentalities that are natural to it. Anachronisms cannot be maintained even by universities, and the Yale, say, of 1850, when a paternal president gathered his little group of faculty and scholars about him under the New Haven elms and discoursed wisdom, is beyond recovery. What, of course, can be done is to adjust the best that was in the old to the conditions of the new. In this particular question it seems...
...tour as far west as Chicago. Dancers say solemnly that Mary Wigman is the Greatest Influence of the modern dance. She is a follower of Isadora Duncan in that she repudiates the formal ballet and all its artificial patterns. But in her striving for freedom, for self-expression, she goes further than the Great Isadora whose dances were made to express great music. Wigman creates her dances first, chooses her own rhythms and then lets sounds of a simple, primitive sort (she uses off-stage tom-toms, bells, sometimes a single flute) be devised to accompany her bold, free movements...
...route and three daily to St. Louis are called for during the first 30 days; thereafter, hourly service. Fares will in no case exceed rail-plus-Pullman. Eventually, hopes Mr. Cord, Century will connect the important cities of 20 States in midWest and South, becoming the "largest passenger and express unit in the world...
...district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives depend on running the trains properly. It is a love-triangle, with Louis Wolheim as the heroic but unfortunate suitor, Robert Armstrong as the one who gets Jean Arthur in the end. Best shot: an express racing through life-sized valleys and hills to Chicago...
...direction finder or "homing device" invented by Radioman Geodfrey G. Kruesi of Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A dial on his instrument board then shows him his direction of flight in relation to the position of the broadcasting station. Last week Inventor Kruesi took his invention to Asheville, N. C, there to confer with his ailing department chief Herbert Hoover Jr. Later he was to show it to Army...