Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asks that academic critics possess the universality of Aristotle, the purity of Longinus, and the dogmatism of Johnson. What is desirable--and what is growing more desirable with the increase of book production and the enlargement of public taste--are critics, whether from the universities or the newspapers, whose advice can be accepted with some trust and whose enthusiasms are restrained by a direct application of the eternal verities. The logical breeding place for such men would appear to be the universities, but the need has yet to be filled...
Miss Talley believes that for the best of musical training, especially for the development of the voice, all those who are able should study in Europe. "The famed teachers abroad have a knowledge of the art of teaching and of musical technique that few, if any, in this country possess," she stated. "So many of the American masters try to teach those under their tutelage by inspiring them, that they often fail to strike the true essence of the art. Artists learn through teaching; not, through inspiration...
...having that which even approaches an unbiased opinion will deny that particularly in this age and day, science embracing what may be called the exact fields of knowledge--possess an interest and must be a part of everyone's cultural development--that development if it is to become complete. Yet the sciences of a necessity from their innate nature place difficulties in the way of their inclusion in a column such as the Student Vagabond. The Vagabond is designed to be of use to those who, having their schedule of courses complete, wish to drop in occasionally on lectures...
...Story. It is an illogical but not totally unfortunate circumstance that, with the aid of beauty, the most stupid woman may successfully pretend to possess a civilized intelligence. Claire Ambler, though beautiful, was not entirely stupid; the ego-centripetal activity of her mind was doubly painful because of the artificiality it first produced and then criticized. But the men who buzzed around her, like bees around a blossom, did not understand this unhappy virtue; they were content to adore Claire Ambler, forgetting in their own egotism, to value hers...
However great a loss the reported destruction of the famous Turner drawings may be for the world of art in general and for the Tate Gallery in particular, this destruction must come in a certain sense as a bore for all who may possess specimens of the master's work in their collections. The destruction of the work of an artist must multiply the value of those works which remain. Philatelists have been known to destroy one of two specimens of a given stamp in order to double the value of the remaining one. Possessors of Turner's drawings...