Word: strident
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...guiding spirits of the modern educational institutions of America and the end of that, training is "dying in the harness" or a comfortable but an idle and empty old age. This change in ideals is the natural result of an epoch which places Production above Humanity; which strikes a strident note of movies, cheap Lingazines, jazz--anything to take the place of constructive thinking. Chicago's grand opera company is dying for lack of support; the centers of real culture, in the East are very small oases in a very Large desort. These facts disclose a truly lamentable condition; they...