Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second section deals with four "magicians": Cocteau, to whom the book is dedicated, Maritain, Max Jacob, and Picasso. Sachs' devotion to these men amounts virtually to hero-worship--although he would probably be horrified at the word. And yet for the most part he is able to give fair estimates of their achievements. On Picasso, of whom he knows the least, he goes furthest wrong. After saying that Picasso's genius is so great that anything he may produce cannot be without value, an absurd supposition in reference to anyone, he compares him to Leonardo, and lapses into further unqualified...
...students have shown their devotion, if not to Bacchus, at least to an American version of this deity; the University should take the steps necessary to facilitate their worship. If the city of Cambridge relaxes its standards in the mild manner required, it is merely another argument for the stabling of the German goat in the dining halls; if not, permission should be given to the students to import freely. Some have expressed the fear that undue and public hilarity might result from the suggested step; this outcome is impossible in the sons of pre-prohibition Harvard men. The throats...
Helen Keller in a syndicated story told of meeting Writer George Bernard Shaw in Lady Astor's London drawing-room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor...
...Pastor Jones of Hope Baptist Church (colored), is drawn from his good wife Ella by the flashing eyes of Sulamai, a loose-hipped young woman from Toomer's Bottom, across the tracks. With Sulamai he attends a meeting of the New Day Pilgrims, a strange sect who worship the moon out in the cypress swamps with four-part harmony and orgiastic dancing. Sulamai seems to have an irresistible appeal for the minor clergy. Writhing in ecstasy among the half-naked New Day Pilgrims, she also distracts the heathen big black Brother Moses from pure contemplation of the moon. Back...
...ordered historical argument, whose headings tot up to a respectable "Individualist Manifesto," Kallen contends that present U. S. leaders "neither face nor understand" the present situation. Industrialism, depersonalizing human relations, "has aborted 'Americanism' as an ideal and has thwarted workers as individuals." Constitution-worship, Fascism, Communism spring not from hope but from fear. Since societies exist only by the consent of their members, a withdrawal of consent (as in the case of Prohibition) nullifies society's laws and purposes. The history of the U. S., thinks Kallen, "is the history of an unremitting warfare in behalf...