Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news that Christianity is outlived, that God has left his church and returned to the fire and whirlwind, is one that might, almost any day nowadays, provide a sensation for the outspoken U. S. press. Particularly if there were violent or sexual details would the public be served to surfeit, until a very real crisis in one man's life became a vulgar byword, grossly misinterpreted...
...There are approximately 300 pieces, pictures and sculpture, and each provides sufficient study and pleasure for all who can see and feel the message of the artist, to enthrall for hours. There is a surfeit of aesthetic delight in strolling around the lovely grounds, where marvelous bronzes and statues stand among the trees and on the terraces...
...Cabell's aim and custom to "write perfectly of beautiful happenings." He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit. Either that, or things in Poictesme†are working out to natural conclusions and Mr. Cabell, as a determined realist, reports them with a deciduous emphasis so that no misapprehension may remain. Queen Freydis has faded. The hair of Melicent, once a golden net where dreams were tangled, will grow straggly and fall...
...wide expanse of loneliness to be found in forests and mountains every year draws a throng form the cities. Even the narrow isolation for one's room is sometimes a welcome relief from the competitive chatter of fellow collegians. When melancholy descends upon the soul, whether caused by a surfeit of real suffering, an unlovely letter, or the failure of some finesse, retreat from neighborly jostling often heals the hurt quickly...
...noon there is a surfeit of interesting lectures today. It ruffles a vagabond's self complaceney. Dr. Demos is speaking in Emerson A on "Egoism and Altruism". Professor Edgell in Robinson Hall is going to talk about two magnificent architects, Brunelleschi and Michelozzo, in Fine Arts 4a. In the Music Building, Professor Bill in his course on the Russian Nationalists is to talk about Balakirev, a strange but great musiclan. And then I remember Professor Lake's Old Testament lecture in Emerson D, and Professor Babbitt's lecture on the Romantic Movement in Harvard 6, and 1 give...