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Awareness of the necessity of planning for the future is emphasized by the fact that similar crises are liable to reoccur with rhythmic regularity. Modern civilization is founded on technology, which is essentially planned and scientific. A blue-print plan for the future would, then, bring our economic system into harmony with the technical efficiency which created it. No rule of thumb procedure is sufficient to bring the world back to a smoother running order...
...Vaslav Nijinsky was by no means unique in turning from dancing to painting. Dancers in the U. S. who have been converted to camas include Paul Swan and Hubert Stowitts. Slim, classic-featured Mr. Swan used to perform rhythmic rites in dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process...
...avoid cities, cash, baggage, railroads; ask for dinner at 10:45 a. m., supper, lodging and breakfast at 4:45 p. m. Vachel (rhymes with Rachel) Lindsay's poetry was rich, loamy, indigenous in praise of the U. S. and its heroes. His most famed verses, however, were rhythmic, jazzy ones like The Congo, which he recited with various booming, chirping, droning, whispering effects. He was the first U. S. poet to recite at (and bewilder) Oxford University. Lately he recorded 36 poems for the Columbia University Library...
...body's rich speech is what serious Wigmanites seek to have emphasized over the vulgar view of their work as strange gymnastics. Wigman beginners are instructed not to think, to become mental vacuums so that they may feel some rhythmic, primitive urge and move accordingly. The urge may or may not be pretty. Dancer Wigman can make it grimly angular and austere. She is close to 50, but she can fill the stage with stark, driving energy. In her dark moods, emphasized by monotonous offstage drumbeats, she is more impressive than when she feels mellow and pastoral...
More Years. Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, his eyebrows bristling, flayed frantic oldsters: "The radios of young people are tuned to rhythmic motion. Those of old people get mainly static. There are too many 'drop-deads.' The 'drop-deads' occur in the city. They may die on the golf links, trying to show they are all right, but they really occur in the city. Farmers haven't the time to drop dead. We overdo the subject of exercise unless we have had the advantage of training early in life. Unless you have been brought up to work in early life...