Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Best Books The following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...carrying cows, and actually,--pigs. The horror of the imputation would be unspeakable,--but fortunately we know better. With the authentic load of hymn-books, blunderbusses, bed-warmers and spinning-wheels, could there have been also room for swine? The question is rhetorical; there could not. But the trend of things is obvious. How soon will someone discover that Douglas wrote the Gettysburg Address...
...queerness into the average path, but fortunately for posterity, his will was he stronger and they were unsuccessful. The normal while often more desirable than the abnormal is not always the best rut to travel. Smothering the individual, making him subject to the caprices of the majority, is the trend hazing takes; the "queer", but possibly the best traits of a boy in the stages of development may be twisted into perversion or cut from his nature altogether through his possible reactions to such customs as hazing...
...newer musical tendencies of Paris. My hope and my reasonable expectation is that some young American composer will produce a jazz symphony, in other words, jazz in sonata form. If America does not develop this musical concept, I will do so myself. So far no exponent of this evident trend has appeared in this country--not even Cyril Scott, who is not as far advanced as the new French school...
...more striking feature of our contemporary poetry is its infinite variety of aim and of technique. There exists in it no general tendency, no trend, no norm. Some of the poets are venturing into that dubious region that lies mid way between prose and verse; others stand immovable with their backs to the safe wall of the old classic verse forms; still others are running the whole gamut between the two extremes. It is a day of experiment and confusion, where tradition has lost its authority, and where revolt has not yet proved its predominance...