Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CRAIG'S WIFE - The portrait of a lady whose domineering domesticity bred revolt in the family...
...Ecole des Beaux-Arts have long lamented, over their bocks and tasses, the monotonous homeliness of the women which the institute employs as models. Dreary matrons, uncorseted and nude, do not excite the eye, the hand or the nerves, they complained. Recently they talked about having a strike. The revolt was quenched, but the dissatisfaction lived on. Last week some 20 students were given the exercise of sketching, in a classic pose, a pendulous woman well known to several generations of Beaux Artists. They worked busily. In half an hour the master called for the sketches, discovered 20 lifelike representations...
...given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which was born a human monstrosity.* After 23 years of confinement it escaped and became the symbol of a revolt of the beggars. A grim and horribly concluded love story runs somewhat amuck among the episodes of war and death...
...Cummings, best known perhaps for his lack of capitals, orthodox punctuation, and spacing, has carried the standard of revolt much further than did Amy Lowell and her disciples a half-generation ago. In return he has achieved a rapidity of motion and a trick of brief description interspersed with flashes of vivid realism, which creates a more startling illusion than would have been possible within the bounds of the old forms. This technique has not been confined to poetry, for an impressionism which resembles it strikingly, constitutes the chief charm of the works of such writers as Sherwood Anderson...
...loyalty that he had left them behind in Germany, decked out in handsome green uniforms with harps worked in embroidery on the collar. Now the Germans, having partly lost faith in him, were insisting that he prove his own loyalty to them by landing in Ireland and directing a revolt, to be supported by smuggled German arms. To Sir Roger Casement, strange, brilliant, unbalanced adventurer, it seemed that his chances, even of life, were slim enough. Jauntily he called back toward the U-719, "I need nothing, Herr Kapitan, except my shroud...