Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those artists of the Renaissence who sought to revive the ancient glories of art by the imitation of Greek and Roman models . He was a tireless student of nature and from it he drew the subtile play of light and shade, the harmony and rhythm of line which raises his work so high among his contemporaries...
...artistic merit of the picture lies in its ability to make an ungarnished section of humanity glow with a composite heroism. Rhythm seems to be the secret of its intensity...
...Gothic restoration is neither a fad nor a case of stylistic predilections," he has written. It is ordered by "the great rhythm of human life that is the underlying force of history." Then he diverges to show history moving in 500-year cycles, one of which is to end, and with it the so-called "modern" era (from 1450 on), in 1950. Gothic alone embodies the spirituality, the truth "as absolute as the difference between right and wrong," that can survive. He predicts a "cataclysm." He cries in the night, with the language of Thomas Carlyle and the tone...
...McCord has discovered the art of humor. This character of his who spends "Half Hours at Sea." who knows a "Philosophy of Ceilings." is humorous in his revlation of pathos. Life to him is no grand grasp of the mighty but a daily contact with the desperately stupid rhythm of life as it is. And the order of his day is the discovery of the droll, pathetic fact that life is life not a great scientific revelation but an amusing gesture. So Coles Philips would be right to suggest this as a Christmas gift, and the author of the Copeland...
...miniature chapel of Union Theological Seminary, long famed training school for divines,* was most reverently crowded. Upstairs, in a room on the second floor, was an overflow of people, radio-attentive. As the organ struck into "The Church's One Foundation," a flashing, gleaming pageant advanced in academic rhythm, most steps firm, assured, a few a trifle embarrassed by glory, to the chancel. There were hoods of scarlet, hoods of green, hoods of orange, purple, blue, set off by touches of spotless white, the whole toned down to harmony by the austere background of a white granite pile. Among...