Word: paganisms
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...commemoration of bygones, but on the contrary crowded with hopes for the future. It was tangibly marked by an ambitious program in which the Cleveland Orchestra under Conductor Nikolai Grigorovitch Sokolov and a company of players were to present as symphonic dramas Charles Martin Loeffler's Pagan Poem, Henri Rabaud's Procession Nocturne and Werner Janssen's New Year's Eve in New York...
Theological concepts of pagan origin are somewhat out of favor just at present, but these gentlemen must surely live in fear and dread lest the Divine Eve-should open earlier than usual some morning and catch them in the act of getting a shine on Sunday...
...Significance. Author Gordon's story is not typical, as would be the story of a black Southerner consciously striving Northward toward freedom. As a Westerner, blind at first to the burden of his own color, Author Gordon dreamed of the East where he would be a brown, pagan tycoon. He won the East and more as songster, not tycoon. Still pagan, he says: "There are only two things I worship in life, a dollar bill and a pretty girl...
Called by Frenchmen "England's greatest poet," Algernon Charles Swinburne in the above lines described and addressed his friend and mistress, a U. S. woman, the late famed Adah Isaacs Menken. In her the poet was pleased to see a Pagan Virgin Mary, coming to crush the new, romantic Christianity, to revive old, lustful paganism...
David Herbert Lawrence, bearded son of a miner and of letters, has often shocked his native England with the pagan implications of his novels (Sons and Lovers, Women in Love). His most recent tale, Lady Chatterley's Lover, he thought best to publish privately, stealthily. But officialdom soon learned of its existence, found the book so concupiscent that it was forever banned from England...