Word: impetus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the new movement in literature and painting known as "Surrealisme" began in Paris some time before 1924, it still remains the "dernier cri", receiving fresh impetus each year, new recruits, new exponents. In this age when new art movements have rapid births but even quicker deaths this fact alone, the persistence of Surrealisme not for a year but for almost ten, should warrant sufficient consideration. But we must not leap too hastily to any conclusion, either for or against. Some of us who mocked the first exhibitions of Cubism in America, notably the Amory Show, have learnt...
...official Anglican-Orthodox report which would be made public in a few days. This report, out last week, was the work of a commission of Orthodox prelates and Church of Englanders. It constituted a further, semi-final step in an Anglican-Orthodox rapprochement begun many years ago,* given impetus after the War and pushed on towards a finish at the Lambeth Conference of 1930. The object of bringing the Anglican and Orthodox faiths together again is nothing more complex practically, nor less majestic theologically, than to achieve that Unity towards which all sects are working. The Pope wants Unity...
...reality. In 1920 this film was finished, and "Dr. Caligari" made his crooked bow to Europe. In those days nothing like it had been seen. Devotees of the arts went to marvel, and there was talk of the cinema coming of age. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" gave the impetus for a brilliant series of European films which included Murneau's "Dracula" (1922) and "Faust," and Eisenstein's "Ten Days That Shook the World" and "Old and New." To the imaginative force of "Caligari," Eisenstein added his technique of film assembly, or "montage," in which short bits of seemingly unrelated...
...idea of building a permanent home for the Debating Council is not without its merits. Such a building would act as an impetus for college debating, and it would put that activity on "a firm and lasting basis". Another important advantage is that it would create a social atmosphere, something that should be a part of any undergraduate activity. It would supply work rooms, and a lecture hall, both of which are necessary for debating...
...least, the history of the past could be made the corollary of an avowed intensive study of the present. To trace back the causes of present events to authoritative sources in the past is, after all, only traversing the same corridor in an opposite direction, backed by the impetus of living data...