Word: romane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assuming that civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal relationship, as in American democracy at its inception. For modern times, when the patriarchal form of government is constantly losing ground, and when democracy is tending "to reduce all things,--government, art, literature and morals,--to the vulgar level of mediocrity," Mr. Denison proposes...
...Post, with many other good G. O. Papers, was "disappointed" in Mr. Hoover because, under ill-disguised pressure from the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan, he had rejected William Joseph Donovan, a prize Hooverite but a Roman Catholic and a Wet. Before the eager Donovan eye were juggled first the Attorney-Generalship, then the War portfolio. Mr. Hoover finally had to withdraw both. The best he could offer his good friend was the Governor-Generalship of the Philippines, which Col. Donovan refused, leaving Mr. Hoover to wonder if he had been disloyal to an old friend...
...Donovan is a Roman Catholic. *In Federal practice a misdemeanor is any offense against the U. S. carrying a maximum penalty of less than one year in jail; a felony, more than one year...
...common that they are all old associates of the late assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30), and are a supporters of presidential candidate General Gilberto Valenzuela, called by his enemies el Capitan de los Cristeros, a nickname implying he is the military chief of embattled Mexican Roman Catholics...
...written to oblige a wealthy burgomaster, so named, of Salzburg. Mozart wrote it in less than a fortnight, when he was 26. Toscanini himself lost 35 of his 61 years when he led it, gave it exceeding grace and innocence. Second was a manuscript performance of Respighi's Roman Festivals, music that would be perilously close to claptrap if done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part of it would make excellent accompaniment for a Griffith cinema with...