Word: melancholia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Irish painting is far less famed than Irish literature. But anyone who recalls the longing of Poet William Butler Yeats for "the bee-loud glade" or the poignant desolation of Novelist George Moore's The Unfilled Field, or any of the more familiar expressions of Celtic lyricism and melancholia, will easily imagine the similar lilt and dolour of Irish painting. Thus when an exhibition of contemporary Irish art opened, last week, at the Helen Hackett Galleries in Manhattan, few were surprised at the nature of the paintings.* Irishmen like Paul Henry see landscapes of mist-laden perfection and paint...
...many Spanish kings of the present Bourbon line have suffered from melancholia that last week Grandees of the Spanish Court evinced some uneasiness as King Alfonso XIII continued sunk in brooding, introspective grief for his late mother, Queen Maria Christina, who died just one month...
...along this same general trend that Mr. Aswell continues to work--this time in search of a remedy for melancholia. And, if he reaches a conclusion which although more intelligent is essentially no more correct than that of most of his predecessors it is not because he does not understand his material. Where he fails--in explaining "student suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind...
...American undergraduate a post-war neurosis?" asks the Evening Post in announcing the offer. "Just what is responsible for the melancholia which seems to have invaded the campus today? Does modern education foster too much independent, unguided thinking...
Since the mysterious obstruction of the Jester's elm last week, Bob Lampoon its guardian and water carrier standing in Joco parents has been a victim to melancholia some say hypochondria Yesterday breaking a long silence he uttered a few words to a CRIMSON news gatherer...