Word: primitivistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PROFESSOR TINDALL, in this witty and searching book on the outstanding primitivist of our time, has been concerned with two fundamental points: Lawrence viewed as in the stream of post-Victorian intellectual revolt against Christianity, evolution and scientists in general; and secondly, Lawrence taken as a symbol of the frustrated romanticism which Professor Tindall finds to be the true essence of our age. He accompanies Lawrence on his spiritual peregrinations into the wilds of theosophy, and for the first time offers a complete investigation of the novelist's reading...
Goldwater of New York University has done a more scholarly job of keeping his eye on the ball, shows more intimate knowledge of modem pictures than Christine Herter. The Primitivist kickoff came during the last century, when Europeans began to envy the free life of savages, began to see something valuable in their...
...banquet in London, where Dr. Sprague waxed conservatively eloquent over the manifold virtues of the depression in eradicating the weak and inefficient, etc., Mr. J. M. Keynes approached him afterward and said, "There is only one word to describe you. You are a sadist." Dr. Sprague is a primitivist whose primitivism extends back only to the nineteenth century. Along with many other learned economists of our time he yearns for a world which exists no more and insists upon an attitude which can only seem uselessly scholastic...