Word: classicized
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...football oligarchy of the East that ruled well nigh supreme some twenty years back has been crumbling for a long time, and still is crumbling. Here are these "Hawkeyes" from Iowa City coming into the classic football shades of New Haven and standing the "Pulldog" on his head. There have been others of these challengers from the out lands, and year by year they seem to grow a little stronger and more threatening. There was Centre and Chicago and Nebraska last year. This fall Kansas comes East, and the Army sends the "Jayhawk" back with defeat stenciled on his feathers...
...wholesale abandonment of all censorship of the "Movies". It is as necessary to keep down the weeds as it is to cultivate the rightful heirs of the soil. But in keeping down the weeds, it is equally important to be sure not to stifle any legitimate flower, an incipient "classic...
...Museum, but as sculpture was used in connection with architecture in many of the great buildings of the world, certain sculptured details from buildings serve admirably as illustrations of these sister arts. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the period of Dryden, Pope, and Addison, and of the pseudo-classic movement, the art of the Romanesque and Gothic periods was scorned and considered barbarous. In the 19th and to a still greater extent in the 20th century the enormous artistic value and signficance of this early work is understood more and more. The Fogg Museum has recently acquired some examples...
...wonder how long it will take people to realize that no man has ever tried to give the public 'something better' and has succeeded. Real classics are written more or less by accident. No author has ever decided to write a classic, and succeeded in producing one. Shakspere wrote for a living. He took old plots, and fitted them for the members of his company. That is one reason why his characters are so realistic; he drew from life. His works were full of genius not because he tried to make them so but because he could not help...
...Classic literature is full of parody. The Batrachomyomachia--"Battle of the Frogs and Mice"-- a travesty of the heroic epic, was long attributed to Homer, and certainly is as old as the fifth century before Christ. Aristophanes mimicked Euripides with side splitting and enraging effectiveness. Cervantes' Don Quixote is sheer parody. In our own language we have a great volume of comic imitation. Shakespeare parodied and was parodied. Milton's ponderous solemnity was the subject of endless ribald travesty in his own momentous metre. Shelley did not shame to lampoon dear old Wordsworth...