Word: posing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stevenson's love of pose, his affectations, his theatric sense Mr. Steuart sees again in his last days in Samoa, as a sort of white chief, a lord of the manor among the admiring natives. "A bouncing egotist who loves the limelight as a beachcomber loves rum," said his neighbors...
...intellect, be it sufficiently subtle, may be able to explain logically how spirits are substantial enough to reflect light, and why the timid creatures, shrinking to invisibility before human gaze, pose so graciously for the photographer. But who will explain the face of Battling Siki among the ethereal throng? Perhaps, the spirits were merely indulging in a low order of practical joke. Such humor, however, is scarcely worthy of men who have attained a more or less fixed station in life, or out of it: and any such explanation must be regarded as a feeble excuse for the somewhat chagrined...
...There is almost everything to help a student go wrong," the report declares, "and almost nothing to hinder him or her from going wrong. There are none of us who pose for moral reformers. There are none of us who are looking for the evil side of life, but enough has come to our attention to make us feel that some effort should be made to give the student as much encouragement to do right as to do wrong...
...John A. Steuart, sets out two really new ideas about Stevenson. The first is that Stevenson often wrote under the influence of drugs, the second that he was consistently an egotistic poseur. All his life he tried to be as different from other people as possible, not hesitating to pose even before his few intimates. In the face of the rather sordid "underworld" life which Stevenson led in his early years in Edinburgh and London. Mr. Steuart does not, like the more obsequious biographers, turn aside and shudder. He tells the plain facts, and leaves the reader to draw...
...Karsavina is a very beautiful woman who gives much pleasure" (The New York Times) ; that "Madame Karsavina is one of the best dancers actively extant" (The New York Herald-Tribune) ; that "Madame Karsavina is an artist of the first rank. She possesses technique, grace and eloquence of gesture and pose" (New York American). But no one suggested that the epithet that has adorned, in small black letters, so many billboards, should be one tittle altered-the epithet which inspires the most arrogant advertisement in the world...