Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a, Mexican, standing before the National Palace, pot-valiant and patriotic, throated a lusty cheer. The bell, originally rung in 1810 by the priest Miguel Hidalgo at Dolores to summon Indians to the subsequently successful revolt against Spain, teetered without squeaking upon its ponderous and newly oiled axis, clanged sonorously...
...Shakspere which a Bradley can uncover and which such a seeker after truth as Professor Kittredge must surely appreciate. Yet in his Eng. 2 he is content to worry words and peck at lines. The second has among its members men like John Livingston Lowes whose "Convention and Revolt in Modern Poetry" is so grand an achievement as to take its place in the rank of masterpieces of literary criticism, whose "Two figures of Earth" in a recent number of the Yale Review is stimulating in the vastness of its concept, in the directness of its approach. He spends classroom...
...Estrada fiasco in California, suppressed before it had taken life, is of greater import than is generally believed. It is folly to believe that Estrada planned to go into Mexico and lead a revolt with only the pitiful little army that was halted in California. He must have had support awaiting him in Mexico. That support is still there. Whether it will pick up the fight and carry on without Estrada is not known. The developments of the next few weeks should be interesting...
Reports from Spain and France indicated that Dictator-P r e m i e r Primo de Rivera had stamped so vigorously upon the embers of the miltary revolt (TIME, July 5 et seq.) that he, too, was able to stamp off to Paris with no fears except for Paris hoodlums...
...strongest. He ascended the Engadine and sent down his poetic prophet, "Zarathustra," to announce the death of the gods, the birth of supermen and the doctrine, "live dangerously." He was last of the Romantics. And so to contemporary Europeans, who, while not Romantics, are expressing a fresh revolt against materialism as left by Spencer and his French equivalents, the Positivists. Henri Bergson (1859-) has lectured at the College de France since 1900. He is the exponent of "creative evolution," having tried to show that consciousness is (in principle) coextensive with life. He has argued that intellection is not the highest...