Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold Reiss's drawings of Negroes because he "made his colored people look so colored." Of the whole radical school of young Negro authors they said, pityingly, disapprovingly: "Lord help these bad New Negroes...
...Elements in the Christian church to which the community has a right to look for enlightened spiritual guidance are scrambling to exploit childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing...
...enjoy life. They are densely ignorant of our writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After all, we are a great country, but not a great people. And everything was there...
...wedding license the bridegroom produced a $20 bill, chuckled, said: "Uncle Sam makes these, but they're no good until I sign them,"* pointed to his signature as President of the Shinglehouse bank. After the ceremony he said: "If you could express how I feel, it would not look well in print-I feel bully...
...twenty five years later. Not only is this true in the customs and ideas which go to make up life in general, but it can perhaps be seen even more clearly in the arts and no where in the arts more obviously than in music. Wagner for example was looked upon by many of our grandparents in the same way in which the more conservative members of the present generation look upon the cacaphonus mechanics of modern workers in sound who strive for greater, realism by introducing automobile horns and engine bells into their scores...