Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zealous, he has ordered that in school hours they must all wear shirts as black as his. Fanatic, he commanded last week that every day they shall recite three new commandments, brief, pagan and patriotic...
...holy flash of black struck at Negro Harlem last week, like a taffeta ribbon across a naughty face. Pagan blackamoors ceased their capers and their vices, to grace the passage of a band of Negro nuns, the Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, who, showing a quaint solemnity, were opening their new chapel to the Negroes...
...mythical tired business man; to others it means wandering home to pick up well-intentioned neck-ties and a little rest. For others, it is rumored, the Christmas Spirit hovers over the ice-caked board walks and the dust-laden air of Widener. The Christmas Spirit, though, is pagan-hard and Christoan-strong enough to disregard such unessential differences. We are all brothers, under the skin or in a shopping crowd. And so, to everyone, like this Christmas spirit and tuberculosis seals, go the sincere wishes of the CRIMSON for a very merry Christmas...
...were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance in manuscript. Pan and the Priest it was called-Pan, the Pagan spirit of unfettered emotions, crossing swords in an endless battle with the Priest, meditative ascetic. Critics found it "striding with energy and lifted head, large- molded, full-throated," "excellent music for a feature film, to depict the struggle of the upper and lower natures of man. . . . concentrated noise," "displaying nothing...
...welter flash raucous snatches of prairie humor, vivid actions, scatterbrained flights of self-pitying, self-despising, pagan philosophy. The father looms as a monument of malicious, brooding egotism. Brother Tom is a semi-imbecile with a bulbous head, liquid eyes and great sensitivity; he married a Danish farm wench and went to Mexico City to found a socialist commonwealth...