Word: materialistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pace that is breathless and occasionally incoherent the author pours out a mass of material which should fascinate the materialist and terrify the romantic. Witches, it seems, did not fly picturesquely through the air on broomsticks. They smeared each other with an irritant ointment, danced and leaped high with sticks between their legs, thereby exciting themselves for the orgy which closed all witches "Sabbats" (Congresses). Withal, they zealously professed a kind of religion, a perverted Gnostic creed that postulated the Devil equal part-creator of the universe with God and more ready to reward his adorants with the things...
George Santayana (1863-), who, though born in Spain and now living in England, long studied and taught at Harvard. He has been called an "immaculate materialist." He accepts universal mechanism as he accepts his friends' names, but finds it capable of such infinite variation, color, beauty, that it satisfies his poet's soul, just as the Catholic Church moves him esthetically without for an instant compelling his belief. He expresses the vestiges of Classicism in the U. S., modernizing Aristotle...
Ambassador Herrick praised the genius of Mrs. Whitney and then went on to "scotch the lie" that the U. S. is becoming a greedy materialist instead of the idealist who entered the war. He finished by quoting Byron: Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate...
...dogmatist who so conclusively laid the Cock Lane ghost could find in modern London hoaxes worthy of his bludgeon. In the interests of science, and of circulation, the Daily Sketch published pictures of spirit faces hovering over the Armistice Day celebration. All was deliciously serene until some clay-souled materialist noticed a remarkable likeness between the dim faces and those of Battling Siki, Jimmy Wilde, and other gentlemen of very earthly complexions. The Sketch has now denounced the photographs, but Conan Doyle and other highsouled enthusiasts have sprung to their defense...
...always uncensored. He will live beyond this generation to a better understanding by the next, because his was romance unbiased by the influence of Freud. "Give me back the image of my beautiful Goddess" as Andreyev says in "He Who Gets Slapped", was not the cry of a crass materialist. His cosmic dream was to see the time when our civilization would be saved. He taught and believed unfailingly that life is love...