Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prostrate subjects. His sonorous aristocrat, Pooh-Bah, is tantalized by lively, romping girls. The color combinations change and move, too, so vividly that the performance could fascinate a deaf-mute. Be sides there is a company of actors with unusually fine voices who have understanding hearts for the blithe spirit of Gilbert & Sullivan. Manhattan holds no sightlier, more in- telligent playfulness than theirs...
...subject is doubtless what brought Miss Gather, who is not a Catholic, to write his story. His nature leaves her free to chronicle every aspect of the vast country in which he worked and where she, three quarters of a century later, annually repairs for enlargement of the spirit. Into his pious story she can bring a wealth of unchurchly anecdotes because, trekking around his desert diocese on his cream-colored mule, Bishop Latour was respectfully studious of its folklore. He was austere towards priests like Padre Martinez, the bison-shouldered Mexican at Taos, brazen in fleshliness. But when Jacinto...
Harboring ones individuality requires as infinite care as harboring a precious jewel and not the least worthy guard is self reliance. In a large group of men, such as at a college or university, there is often a species of gregarious frenzy which might be termed the herd spirit. It is the Crimson's belief that there is less of this mania evidenced at Harvard than at any other institution, but no college can be entirely free from its ravages. The preventative lies in each case with the man himself, for every man has his own means of fortifying...
...star halfback, Tom Marlowe (John Price Jones), has flunked his astronomy just before the opening chorus, two days prior to the intercollegiate crisis with Colton. The heroine, Connie Lane (Mary Law-lor), tutors him for a make-up examination, which he passes?be-cause the professor shows college spirit. One minute to play?the stage darkens and Tom Marlowe is seen tearing off 40 yards against Colton and a treadmill. He fumbles, but by trick playwrighting the fumble is converted into a lateral pass to the leading comedian (Gus Shy, who really is funny). Thus, the game is won; future...
...manner in representing people and objects, and uses the brush to symbolize the sentiments. In this he is at times a little literary. . . . Pavel Jerda-nowitsch is not satisfied to follow ordinary paths. He prefers to explore the heights and even, if necessary, to peer into the abysses. His spirit delights in intoxication, and he is a prey to the esthetic agonies which are not experienced without suffering...