Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imitators, won thousands of converts. Wigman interviews last week were in the vein of "I love life!" and "I am lying on the earth and am one with the elemental things, the primal things. It is as though my body were filled with life. My body sings and I listen and I try to translate that music into movement." Wigman audiences received her with shouts of ecstasy, apparently found deep, abstract meaning in her lunging, prancing, posturing and whirling, did not mind her looking middle-aged and having dowdy costumes. The uninitiated could appreciate her strength and vitality, her perfect...
...left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy. Reading one of Selma Lagerlof's books is like listening to the more-than-shrewd conversation of a wise old lady, realistic, worldly, understanding. The tale the old lady has to tell may seem a very homely narrative about very simple people, but before you have listened long you realize she is telling you about Life. Unless you are sure...
...machinery will glare conspicuously against jet black floors to eliminate accidents. So that his men will hustle, Mr. Simonds is having his factory walls painted light green, a combination of energizing grass green, ultra-violet-reflecting blue, cleanly white. Because manpower tires, lags behind machinepower, the Simonds sawmakers will listen to an interval of stirring music at the fatigue hour (two hours before quitting time). The efficiency, industry, ingenuity of the sawmakers will be graded by men who watch from sus pended overhead walks. A similar building is being planned as a temporary exhibit at the Chicago Fair...
...security prices that debtors should ask for a readjustment of their debts. I would be glad to do so myself. Unfortunately, it takes twice as many securities to pay my debts as it did when I incurred them. I could make a very good moral argument, if anyone would listen to me, that my debts should be reduced, but I would not expect to get a hearing unless my creditor was satisfied of my incapacity to pay. If he was, then it would be for the creditor to say, not for me, what he wished to do about...
...hero of her tale is a strange Finn. Dr. Tawaska. A cold, mysterious fish of a man, he travels unobtrusively over the world, investigating occult mysteries, appearing at long intervals to Caroline, "the woman with white eyes," to listen unsympathetically to her news, to announce that life is literally a dream, to accuse her of being asleep. "You are asleep with your eyes not quite closed, slits of white showing." Caroline invariably admits the truth of his suave impeachment but to date (aetat. 60) has done nothing much about it except call for madder music, stronger wine. At last, however...