Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interview with a Crimson reporter. "Interpretive dancing has just started in this country; 80 years ago not a dozen people would go to see the same type of performance with which we are now able to fill houses all over the country. Of course it will always be less popular than modern jazz for it can never become a common type of dancing. Popular dancing such as the modern fox trot must be essentially simple so that it can be learned easily...
...were doing in them. She and her husband, Ted Shawn, arrange all their own dances and she stated that her 18 minths in the Orient this winter had given them a wealth of material to work on. Returning to dancing and especially modern dancing, she said, "I feel that popular dancing as one sees it today is nothing mere than a complicated form of hugging. It will, however, probably change very soon and return to some more rhythmic form of movement." When asked if she liked Havelock Ellis's "Dance of Life" she shrugged her shoulders and said, "Of course...
...never heard of Sudermann, or his most popular drama, "Magda", in which Madame Bertha Kalich is now playing at the Plymouth, he would yet recognize it, before he had seen the first act through, as one of the dramas of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as belonging to the period of Ibsen, Zola, Hardy, and the other great questioners of the established order of things. The predominant note which Sudermann strikes in "Magda" is one of protest and incidentally of inevitable tragedy. The comparison with Ibsen's "Ghosts" and the other Ibsen's dramas of a like nature...
...clock in Sever 35, Dr. Baxter will lecture on "Anglo-American Relations, 1853-60." Anglo-American relations, whether they be studied in the popular form of the Page letters or from history textbooks, are interesting for the way they are woven and entwined into the history of the world. Even the study of the comparatively brief span between 1853 and 1860 should prove worthwhile...
...would be useless to state once more the reasons why I cannot think of Germany as an autocracy, but must continue to think of her as a country where the enlightened leadership of administrative experts, endowed with large responsibility devoted to the public welfare, guided if not controlled by popular supervision, has brought about a type of citizenship and a state of society as healthy and progressive as exist anywhere in the world...