Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal? "The answer comes in the undiluted animalism of the last works of D. H. Lawrence, in the emotionalism of demagogs, in Hitler's scream, 'We think with our blood.' Satisfied that we have, weighed reason and found it wanting, we now turn to passion." Dr. Hutchins' remedy: Let Science stick to fundamentals and let the universities base their principles on "fixed and immutable ideas." inculcating the young with pure ."intellectual virtues...
...were three ballets. In La Concurrence, two tailors fought comically for each other's trade and decked out half the dancers in richly colored furbelows. Les Presages, done to Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, was more obscure but in it Irina Baronova and David Lichine did a memorable passion dance. Le Beau Danube had an amazing mazurka done by Leonide Massine and Tatiana Riabouchinska (see cut}. Their footwork was incredibly swift and sure. But all the leading dancers were so expert that they made the most marvelous spins and leaps seem incidental. That...
Eight other New York banks were able to resist the RFC's passion to become a stockholder because they were state institutions. They compromised by selling the RFC "capital notes." Thus supersolvent Guaranty Trust, already vexed by having more money than it can profitably use, planned to let the Government lend...
...surprised to find that the master is digging in a small pile of manure when he meets him; he is more surprised when the master tells him that Susette, the maid, is his latest passion. Pendleton's dreams become nebulous. He is hurt when the master bluntly informs him that his novel is worthless, hurt because he realizes the master speaks the truth. Theodore Pratt's story is one of the few pieces in the anthology which will hold your interest and which shows no signs of padding...
...Brain Trusting, with distillers given the choice of accepting an arbitrary code or facing the threat of a government sales corporation. No theory of social expediency was advanced in support of Federal liquor control, and observers concluded that it was merely another manifestation of the Brain Trust's passion for centralization. Die-hard Drys were more pleased than they had been all year...