Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also says: "For Heaven's sake remember that there are plenty of geniuses about, and that the real difficulty is to find writers who are sober, honest and industrious and have been for many years in their last situation." Flecker's qualifications were sustained in 1923 when his poetic drama Hassan began a long run at His Majesty's Theatre, London, later appearing...
Besides venerability, Justice Holmes takes much from his father, including a poetic turn of expression and a liberal cast of thought. Although he is now the oldest member of the Supreme Court,** he is now and always has been regarded as one of the liberals of the Court. He has never been known as an old fogy. He is no stickler over small technicalities, not one to place the tradition of the law above the majesty of justice. He has written: "Law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky." With the influx of liberal members to the Court...
Said Critic Lawrence Gilman of the New York Herald Tribune: "The whole of it is vital and dis- tinguished music, but the slow movements, the largo, is not only an exquisite piece of writing, but it is charged with a depth of feeling, a poetic beauty, a musing, tenderness...
...opinions expressed look upon Professor Murray's coming here as a definite step in intellectual progress. Unanimous comment has also been made on the fact that the word poetry in connection with this professorship is to be taken in its broadest sense and is to include poetic expression, not only in language, but in music and the fine arts...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry was established by Mr. Stillman, a former student under Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, specifying that the term "Poetry" should include not only Verse but all poetic expression in language, music and the fine arts, such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. President Lowell in commenting upon the newly established chair on its establishment last year said: "It helps the struggle of years to place college emphasis on intellectual culture...