Word: malignancy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their thin songs with nothing in their heads but a bitter and windy laughter. These critics have listened to the compositions of Composers Ravel and Satie, whose music laughs at music, have seen the works of Sculptor Nadelman, whose sculpture laughs at sculpture, until the accumulation of all this malign mirth has inspired them to plead: "If we must laugh, let us laugh honestly. This mockery is unworthy of the staunch hearts. Where is the belly-shaking-chuckle of Aristophanes? Where in Music, in Sculpture, is the Classic Spirit...
...loved life, but few of the living. His own ugliness was stamped on his frame; why should he gloss the deformity that twitched in the minds of those he saw, revealed by an expression, a turn of a head, an angle of a body? He painted with the bitter, malign mastery of a superb satirist. His three chef-d'?uvres?Le Moulin Rouge, Femme dans un Atelier, La Pierreuse?were included in the Manhattan exhibit...
...David's Dad.-Somehow the report got around that this play was the Abie's Irish Rose of Germany and people assembled to malign the effort mentally and laugh themselves sick on the side. Unhappily, the things that aroused hilarity in Germany did not sound so funny in the U. S. The translation sounded like a literal rendering of German grammar exercises by one of the least intelligent members of the class. The plot bestirs itself about a haughty family who think their daughter could have done a lot better than marry that young doctor. The young doctor...
...words had a sublime signifleance. The hours of scholarship, were in retrospect at least, silver with thoughtful speech and golden with silent thinking. But the Spirit of the Hour under whose dreadful rule Harvard now swears and sweats by turns is of a very different nature, with a more malign influence...
...seems quite possible, however, that Mr. Butler really has a higher opinion of these degenerate moderns than most of his remarks would indicate. At the end of his address he speaks of "having faith in youth", which sounds somewhat more friendly to the much maligned "younger generation." As for the great Victorians whom he praises so highly, it is foolish either to malign them promiscuously or to laud them to the skies. Since they were adjusted to a very different type of society, they would perhaps have been even less successful than the moderns in dealing with the problems...