Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Roman hierarchy, uttered his dictum on the encyclical and upon church unity at the annual meeting of the Church Women's League for Patriotic Service in the Manhattan home of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, social bigwig. Said Bishop Manning: "We are living in very interesting times. . . . Great movements are going on all about us. ... I want to say that I hope no one will feel in the least discouraged or doubtful as to the progress of the movement [for union] on account of any pronouncement that may come from anywhere, even though it might seem unfortunate...
With the plans for the new building, no fault is to be found. Its location, with Harvard's definite movement towards the Charles, is ideal. Theodore Roosevelt's home during his formative years and the domicile of the Speakers Club, it is true will have to go, but such up-rootings must be expected, and, artistically speaking, the loss of these and other frame houses in the neighborhood of the Freshman dormitories is scarcely to be regretted. In design, the new gymnasium proves once more the adaptibility of Colonial architecture. Though highly utilitarian in purpose, the outside of the building...
...recent German literary movement we find a great many tendencies and a remarkable lack of unity." This was the introductory statement from which Klaus Mann developed his thesis of the youth movement of Germany, in Emerson Hall before an appreciative audience of considerable size last night...
After pre-war naturalism and the succeeding expressionism had disappeared, the young Germans found themselves without a unifying literary style. "Style is the result of a movement." Mr. Mann explained, "and in France the younger generation believed that search for a common goal was sufficient to create a movement, surrealism...
...Germans however are stricter and need a more definite tendency than mere unity of purpose. It is best not to speak of those nationalistic and militaristic groups that unite in hatred of France; it is this group, strong in sport and materialism, that looks with distrust upon any movement tending to ward the liberation of thought and spirit...