Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...realize human life? As a mass of single separate experiences, as a heap of happiness or misery, to be estimated by addition? No; for in this fashion life would not be rationally realized at all. To determine to treat the whole of life as real, implies for a rational being the determination to treat it as having organic unity, or at all events to try to bring it into such unity-to exemplify. When we estimate our own lives, or any part of them, we do so by treating the experiences in question...
...James Freeman Clark gave one of his characteristic addresses last evening before the Divinity students. His subject was: "The Evotution of the Christian Minister." He chose this subject, he said, wishing to be in fashion. The old word was "development." Both words mean growth. He then gave a very interesting and practical discussion, illustrated largely from his own experience, of the growth of the minister in the performance of his clerical duties...
...write a play, a play meant for popularity. This is because literature has gone far astray of the stage, and in spite of the fact that the best literature is in the highest sense dramatic. The plays which are observed today are seldom, even in a crude fashion, literary. Sound literary spirit, nevertheless, adds force to a play. Action is not the one thing needed in a good drama. Thought, and the lucid expression of this thought are also needed in it. The emphasis which has been laid upon action and situation, however, has led the men of literature...
...every class who seem to require some outlet for their superabundant animal life. Before the day of athletics, such men supplied the class bullies in fights between town and gown, and were busy at night in gate stealing and in other pranks now gone out of fashion. A number of them were dissipated men, and had to diversify the monotony of their classroom life by a spree and a row. Many such men, under the present system, find occupation for all this activity in regular training. A man who goes into training can not go on sprees, and must economize...
GLOBE THEATRE.-"The Glass of Fashion." Performance...