Word: classicized
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...golden calf which America worships" cannot be shattered by "quiet staid respectability." Nor can an intellectual aristocracy which hugs the fireside, and sips tea--or coffee, and fiddles with ideas "guide an amorphous democracy", intellectually or otherwise.' This is no time to indulge in neo-classic vagaries. Now, as never before, the world has need of its youth. There are vital problems to be solved, courageous beliefs to be voiced and translated into action...
...novel, of the type of "Main Street," so much in vogue today, that deals with drab, everyday life in a colorless wag, will not last long as a classic, according to Joseph C. Lincoln, noted American novelist, In a recent interview for the Crimson. These novels form but one more example of the attempt of the Realists to supplant the Romanticists in the field of literature, Mr. Lincoln said...
...reply to the question as to whether there would be any enduring classic among the realist novels of today, Mr. Lincoln said that he thought not. "Those books have lasted," he declared,, "which have been written with more than a little regard for what might be called the humanities. All through the history of literature you will find this to be true. It is for this reason that Shakespeare's plays are still read and his characters still widely known, while the works of almost all of his contemporaries have long ago been forgotten. It is for this reason that...
...exhibition ending on Thursday, April 14. Added interest has been given to the exhibit by placing in the cases certain reproductions of manuscripts which illustrate phases of miniature painting not represented before. The collection has thus been made practically an epitome of the art of illumination from the late classic times through the fifteenth century...
...late classic phase is shown pages from two Virgils, one the so-called Vatican Virgil of the fourth century, and one of the sixth century. In these manuscripts the illuminations were treat as separate pictures and not close linked with the text as in the mediaeval manuscripts...