Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human anatomy.* Others admit the distortion but defend it by saying that the Egyptians distorted, as did El Greco, the Italian primitives. The merits of Modigliani, they add, are many: his color is finely schematic; his line is sensitive and delineates the sitter's character with wit and insight; his best canvases show the feeling of a real primitive; he is akin to the Siennese, a true Italian...
...shibboleths for living principles: the one who in other words, if not better, is at least different. Liberalism, being essentially a sort of seeking the golden megs, is not calculated to inspire a young man sufficiently to bring out in him that highest of all qualities which Professor Rogers' insight has discovered and his eloquence has set forth...
...entire globe," he said, "is being embraced in a commercial order determined by physical science and obscuring for many the idea of a living God, while psychologists are putting forward insight into human behavior as the basis of a code of conduct instead of the principles derived from religion. "What manner of church is it that can appeal to souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing...
With equally bright insight, some impersonality, average epigrams and over all a great unconscious pathos continues the story of how Ex-Wife tried to make Ex-Husband's image dead in her heart. Numerous distractions, hard liquor, hard work and handsome men fill a certain gap, until she marries one of the last. Heroine and author are a bobbed, grey-eyed, short brunette still short of 30, mother of a five-year-old son. She is Katharine Ursula Parrott, ex-wife of Reporter Lindsay Parrott of the New York Evening Post...
...exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity, orgy, oath, curse, blessing, Author Crawley. though Nordic, writes in a style itself marked by almost complete freedom from Nordic taboos: that is, he writes scientifically. The science of his insight is occasionally relieved by its poetry. This is more of a distinction than is the approval given him by Sexpert Havelock Ellis, lavish approver...