Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Proust has been called a human microscope. He called himself a human telescope, prying into people's hidden motives for general psychological laws. Also he is notable as a writer of varied but disconcerting style, due to the extreme length of some of his sentences. To enjoy Proust is to be impressively bookish. Accordingly, Proust is a favorite among poseurs as well as purists...
...solution: selling cotton from the style standpoint and forgetting it from the thrift standpoint. U. S. prosperity had made many a woman, once a cotton-buyer, a purchaser of silk. The arrival of rayon, essentially a low-priced near-silk, had completed the defeat of cotton. The cheapness of cotton became not an asset but a liability, for textile trade follows the flag of fashion...
...Manhattan's Art Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost almond eyes, could stimu late their vision and would carefully avoid imposing his own or any particular technique. In his insistence on vision rather than style lay his greatness as a teacher. "Every stave in a picket fence," he wrote, "should be drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn...
...filial, and social-are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity, orgy, oath, curse, blessing, Author Crawley. though Nordic, writes in a style itself marked by almost complete freedom from Nordic taboos: that is, he writes scientifically. The science of his insight is occasionally relieved by its poetry. This is more of a distinction than is the approval given him by Sexpert Havelock Ellis, lavish approver...
...psychological significance whatever. It is a great, coarse object in a debased Indo-Chinese style, representing a creature half-Buddha, half-mummy, bearing upon her knee a corpselike child of enormous size...