Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the results of this curious exportation may be, they promise to be of peculiar interest to Americans. It may prove a most beneficial shock to somewhat provincial citizens to view "theatres, schools, and laws" modelled on their own through the clarifying perspective of the Atlantic...
...automobile industry finds itself in a peculiar dilemma this Spring. Under the extraordinary past purchasing of cars in the U.S., production facilities of the leading car manufacturers have been greatly increased. This has in turn led to stiffer and stiffer competition and a tendency to cut prices on the basis of quantity production. As long as more and more cars could be sold, this policy of expanding plants and reducing unit profits is, of course, perfectly sound...
...novelty in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 22nd concert of its regular series was Ernest Schelling's tone-poem A Victory Ball. A peculiar enthusiasm for this work seems to have seized conductors this season. Pierre Monteux was one of the last to succumb. The Schelling opus is an interesting experiment, but scarcely a heaven-storming masterpiece. Based on a poem* by Alfred Noyes, which first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, it tells, in music, the tale of the return to earth of the spirits of soldiers slain in the late War. Instead of the solemn masses, purity, virtue...
...history. He opposes vigorously the abstract rationalism of the academic philosophy formerly taught at Heidelberg. The next in popularity is Professor Jaspers. College ethics prevent him from opposing too openly the Heidelberg tradition, but his philosophic system does so for him: it is based on psychology and a peculiar variety of metaphysics." Hear- Christian Herrmann on German universities in general: In 1914."Shortly before the war the disassociation between the university and the people reached a point where the former completely lost contact with the nation's spiritual life. The faculties were hypnotized by research, and carefully abstained from...
...book is least concerned with the first given maxim; it would be a greater work if it dealt more with it. It reveals the second maxim subtly and upon the third, it is founded. There is no person created by Mr. Bromfield that is not poignantly individual, and even peculiar. The more his characters assert themselves and the older they grow, the more they intensify themselves. You have never seen John, Julia, Lily or Irene Shane before, but you will not soon forget them. They are alluring because they are alive. For instance, the development of Irene, from an innocent...