Word: exteriorizer
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With modernity as their keynote, decorators plastered the Faculty Room's ceiling and put modern wire lath in place of the old-fashioned wooden lath formerly used. At present the finishing touches are being added by the painters who are still busy on the exterior of University Hall...
...Inevitably I cannot please everyone. I am not a dictator. I am a simple citizen who loves Liberty and who has the utmost confidence in your wisdom and your love of France. When I began my labors last February interior and exterior peace was threatened. To avert immediate danger we were forced to the recourse of extraordinary parliamentary procedure. [Gastounet forced Chamber and Senate to vote him power to put through the budget by decree] Thanks to Parliament we have balanced the budget; effected fiscal reforms; so improved our trade position that since March 1 500 million francs in gold...
...home so it will intimate touch. Crowds fill the streets, door-checkers and bouncers abound for the purpose of keeping it exclusive; orchids and orchestras line the balcony; and the debutante and her parents, arrayed by Mr. Patou, greet some dismal but socially presentable friends. Beneath all this gay exterior a tragedy is taking place. The young musician, not realizing what he has done to the debutante, leaves her to marry the socialite, Jimmy Weaver, the third. Quite a noble conception...
Beneath the very pleasant exterior of Edward Ballantine, there is an amazing amount of seriousness. He has kept his youthfulness, even unto his looks, but his music has always supplied him with a definite purpose. Whether teaching or listening to a symphony orchestra perform one of his compositions, the same enthusiasm is present. The man that composed "Mary Had a Little Lamb" regards his associateship at Dunster House and his concerts before the House in approximately the same way. Neither seriousness nor enthusiasm displace each other; but the seriousness is present more than the casual observer realizes...
That persistent concern with the exterior characteristics of nature which has governed later European art does not interest the savage. It is the idea, such as he envisions it, that is, of dominating importance. Artistically, this quality of the inner idea is far removed from that of Greek sculptors like Polycleitus and Lysippus, but is nearer to the spirit of the Chinese Hsieh Ho, to whom inner quality and rhythmic vitality was a necessity for any worthy art. The obvious exaggeration and distortion, which appear to be a part of the search for this inner idea, have, of course...