Word: impetuses
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...America is susceptible to new influences; it has a younger spirit. But the French are under the influence of the impressionistic school, and this new music involves a radical departure from the accepted standard of classicism. The new music of Paris has in a certain sense derived a real impetus from American jazz, and I am firm in my belief that jazz will constitute the basis of the future schools of American and European music. Jazz has many redeeming features, for in it there is a certain warmth, an enthusiasm, a disonant quality, a vitality of rhythm, which...
...policy of isolation, or "friendly aloofness" as it has been characterized, which carried the Administration into office has gone by the board and nothing definite has taken its place. The Democratic skirmishers can find an entering wedge with a modified "League of Nations" thrust, which is gathering increasing impetus with the turning of American interests to Europe...
...Spanish man of letters once remarked that the most beautiful word in English is "cellar-door". With this impetus almost anything is possible. To begin with, down with the terrorism of such adjectives as "wonderful"' "great"' or "fascinating". They have dominated the vocabulary too long. Everything today is "wonderful" from elevators to engagement rings. There is no way out except by inventing a new word. Churkle will not fit in this place, why not "chirping"? It means no more than "wonderful" certainly and it has a refreshing sound...
...both from "The Coventry Cycle". These two plays will be supplemented by several scenes from "The Salutation and Conception" from "The Hegge Cycle". All three of these primitive beginnings of the English drama,--dating as they do from a period long before Shakespeare was to give it its upward impetus,--reflect with striking vividness the curious mixture of simple piety and homely humor, of naivette and cunning that went to make up the interesting if illogical mind of the peasant of the time...
...late Dr. Rathenau's statement last June: "We pull bodies of suicides out of the river and the canals of Berlin daily, but never one sufficiently clad", summarizes perfectly the material misery. But perhaps worse is the ever increasing moral dissolution. In addition to the impetus bodily misery always gives to moral delinquency, there is that national isolation of thought peculiar to a country which has no sound economic relations with the rest of the world. Germany today cannot afford any foreign newspapers, magazines or books; it can hardly afford to print its own. Such a situation directly affects...