Word: classicized
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...many respects the modern audience governed itself in the classic manner handed down from generations of hanging. Despite twentieth century civilization, the etiquette of old-fashioned justice held sway. After the noose had done its work, the body hung long on view for the edification of the populace. Babes in arms were hoisted high on their mother's shoulders that they might see their first dead wrong doer,--no doubt with the worthy expectation of a consequent decrease in crime twenty years hence...
Timon of Athens really delighted in his reputation as a misanthropist. And hurling stones at all and sundry he advanced his chest in classic pride at being thought a bater of man. But not all of us have that classic pride. So when hints come down Plympton Street that a certain criminal is also a misanthropist, a misogynist--indeed, a mistake. The Crime, Column shivers like a traffic cop, feels as unscrupulous as the Memorial Hall clock. For last week's salute, though not a salut d' amour was really not the expression of undying hate. One the contrary...
Western civilization, be it bathtubian or bunk, is a reality which necessarily had to be analyzed by fictionists before they could use it as a medium for classic expression. The time has now come when the analysis is no longer new, no longer prepotent. Indeed one can easily believe with such critics as Carl Van Doren here and J. C. Squire in England that a real dawn is illuminating the field of American letters...
...employs as models. Dreary matrons, uncorseted and nude, do not excite the eye, the hand or the nerves, they complained. Recently they talked about having a strike. The revolt was quenched, but the dissatisfaction lived on. Last week some 20 students were given the exercise of sketching, in a classic pose, a pendulous woman well known to several generations of Beaux Artists. They worked busily. In half an hour the master called for the sketches, discovered 20 lifelike representations of a camel...
...eggs, red paint, mustard and sick fruit have hurtled against their immaculate facades what time incoming classes, while posing for their photographs, have been advised by sophomores that vanity is not pleasing to the gods. But the freshmen have always laved the temples afterward until they shone pristine and classic as before...