Word: perceivees
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Perhaps Mr. Farrar's diagnosis of the American frame of mind is incorrect; perhaps he does Americans a great injustice; perhaps he credits them with a virtue which they do not deserve. But if his diagnosis he correct, wherefore be sorrowful? Perhaps the beauties of serene contemplation are lost upon...
M. Philippe Barrès, son of Maurice Barrès (late author-orator) then defined the spirit of the new Fascism as "Faith in France . . . and a deep disgust with parliamentarianism." Declared M. Georges Valois, Nationalist economist: "Our work will be . . . to suppress parliament and give a leader to...
What child is not, at one time or another, regarded as a prodigy? Let any baby spend an hour taking a twelve-jeweled watch apart, and no parent can fail to perceive in him the seed of potential engineering genius; let him draw in pencil on the nursery wall and...
Or perhaps he did not wear any such expression - perhaps it was merely the fancy of the beholders to perceive it, for everyone was thinking that Mr. Mastbaum had reason to be, and even to look, satisfied; he was returning from Paris where he had bought 98 Rodins.
Many people who know nothing and are capable of understanding less about sculpture are excited by the beauty that they instantly apprehend in Rodin; they grasp without effort subtleties of intention that the sophisticated perceive only tortuously, after elaborate reasoning. There is more in this fact than an illustration of...