Word: soulless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pointed with scorn at the talking cinema. Small is the loss of their livelihood, said the 400, compared to the incalculable loss which the public must suffer from "canned music." Gone will be all chance for U. S. youth-culture; gone will be all appreciation for artistic renditions. Mechanical, soulless music will pervert and deaden the public musical sense. The resolution continued...
...oozy lakes-crocodiles are noxiously at home. Branded upon memory may remain a fight between two mammoth crocodiles, each some 20 feet long-savage devils, mercilessly tearing, raking, lunging, thrashing the ooze with loud slaps of mighty tails. The eyes seem to glare with sheer hate, remorseless, soulless, infernal. The defeated crocodile, mangled and dead, is not eaten until it has partially decayed and thus become more succulent to the victor. Pigmies. Suspicious of the white man, Congo Pigmies often set thin, poisoned stakes point upward in his path. He, knowing or fearing that they are always watching, perhaps with...
...modern War was ugly and soulless and the British sculptors have succeeded in portraying this. The War should have had no record at all in art. Modern art is all French. Italy appears to have had her say. Russia goes from bad to worse. One of her bright sculptors executed a piece showing a pyramid standing on its apex. I suppose he was portraying a revolution. England has never had a sculptor. I cannot speak for America until I have seen what there is. I should say, from what I know, their architecture is much better than that of England...
GOODBYE, STRANGER?Stella Ben-son?Macmillan ($2). Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy...
...tremendous revolt against the soulless materialism of present-day civilization is the keynote of Germany's present Youth Movement" said Dr. Fritz Kellarmann in an interview with a CRIMSON representative yesterday. Dr. Kellarmann. Studiennat of the Gymnasium of Kassel, is at present an Instructor of German at the University...