Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...fate of all open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies. But Christian Student has received more than his full share. Standing opposite Murray Dodge Hall, campus religious headquarters, he is passed daily by almost each & every student. At night, when pagan students are emboldened by potations from Bill & Jim's or other anti-prohibition stations, they frequently commune with the Christian Student. Many a sun has risen to find him hugging an empty bottle, or with indecent additions to his costume, outlandish colors on his anatomy...
Made in Germany, imported to France, is the cult of Nudism, a mulligan stew of vegetarianism, physical culture and pagan worship. The outstanding feature is that all devotees must live in a state of complete spectacular nudity.* Much publicity has been given the Nudist colony on an island in the Seine near Paris. Lively have been their arguments, moral, economic, religious, with Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe over the matter of bathing trunks. Some weeks ago a young French reporter paid a secret visit to the Nudist colony. So depressing, so disillusioning was his published account of the flabby spectacle...