Word: traditionless
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...solemn judgment echoes through the works of several modern historical theorists, who point like hour hands to the parallel decline of the modern West. Oswald Spengler believed that the historical cycle-both Roman and industrial-ends in megalopolis, where man coheres "unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...
...Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to emigrate by their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth, for Vienna is the archetype of the great city which breeds such a population. . . . Luccheni said with his stiletto to the symbol of power, 'Hey, what are you going...
...worrying fact about U. S. foxhunting is its brief, comparatively traditionless history. Author Peters faces the fact, avers time will tell it differently, reminds his supporters that George Washington, though he may not have dressed the part, was an ardent pursuer of foxes. Chief differences between U. S. and English hunting are of climate and country: "Our days are not so long, our distances, curious as it may seem, not so great, and our going, except for the damage of frozen ground, not so severe on horses." But to hedge-jumping British riders U. S. post-&-rail fences seem high...
Australia, young and traditionless though she is, has produced her quota of artists, and an Australian exhibition is now in progress at Burlington House, London. There is little, however, that is distinctive of Australia as opposed to the art of other modern countries. The chief figures are Max Meldrum, Norman Lindsay, Hugh Ramsey, George Lambert, Heysen, Gruner...
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