Word: artistical
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...example, his finale of Brahm's C Minor Symphony the fulminant of a Manhattan explosion of applause. The players were both glad that they were done with him and proud that their skill had met his demands. For the beat of his baton brevets a player an artist...
...distance between Europe and America is just as great and effectual as it was when Edgar Lee Masters wrote of the Spoon River artist at Rome, with his work that looked now like Apollo, now like Lincoln. What has long gone without attention across the water still creates a tumult here. Chiselled marble brings a self-conscious blush to the cheeks of the New World, when it turns from its machines to play the esthete. And, after all why need it be ashamed of its lack of artistic sophistication: No European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short...
...Glyn's best manner) discussed every subject under the sun, including literature and its High Priest, Leonid Andreyev. On Feb. 12, 1928 (remembered as the birthday of one of them), a group of not-so-young Russians sat in an attic overlooking chimney pots (in the best starving-artist manner), and discussed art-or rather the lack...
Hurrying along the walk in front of the battlements of Sever comes the artist with his carefully creased black felt hat jammed down over his eyes. In front of him, not managing to eclipse him, but successfully blocking his way saunters the debonair man of the world, his hat of excellent vintage but considerably battered--probably with a hole or two in it--turned down in front and up behind with perfect studied carelessness...
...snuffed out; in fact, she says: "The exigencies of this novel forbid that they ever shall become real ashes." How she creates these exigencies, day after day, year after year, has been a mystery to many an author. Her method is to introduce into the normal lives of Artist Dicky Graham and Madge a series of domestic disturbers, devilish dervishes, droll dolts. But, always, Sentiment is the essential ingredient in Revelations of a Wife. It appeals, not to shopgirls who want a seduction in every chapter, but to housewives and clubwomen who read more fiction than any other group...