Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEREAS, The tonic atmosphere of New Mexico is tired nature's sweet restorer and its civilization as old as yesterday and as young as tomorrow and its history crammed with antiquity and artistic interest as well as with grandeur of natural scenery, of mountain, and plain...
Those who let the jaundice of an imperfect understanding color their views of university education should find here an excellent tonic. If 221 Seniors at Harvard are willing to consider seriously the intellectual advantages of a degree with honors, the number of those in America who would, under similar circumstances of inspiration and freedom, do the name is legion...
...work seems of particular importance just at this period of our civilization, especially as represented by America. Everyone should read and ponder Beethoven's life and career. His courage, sincerity, generosity, and unswerving devotion to his ideals of art and life cannot fail to supply that inspiration and tonic force which our industrial and financial age sadly lacks. Let us, therefore, enlarge somewhat upon the permanent quality in Beethoven's music, its emotional and spiritual power. So much emphasis today is laid upon science, book learning, research, behaviorism, and pedagogy, that the emotions are often entirely ignored. "But science," says...
...suspect this book will seem a trifle old-fashioned to many people. Towards the end of each essay there is a tendency towards gentle moralizing; pervading them is a keen contagious love of nature and of simple things. For most readers it should furnish an excellent after Divisionals tonic...
...troupes of Russian players which in the past few years have come to town. It is hard to say which of the Moscow Art Theatre or the Chauve Souris made the most lasting impression on the theatre-going public. M. Stanislavsky and his players gave the sophisticated playgoer a tonic which did much to put new blood in his veins and awake him once more to the infinite possibilities of the drama well presented. The other group, pointing ostensibly toward the other pole of the theater, gave us a new sensation in the world of the review. The moon-faced...