Word: janus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...octopus of education has in its grip the stray minutes of the workman's day. Brawn bows politely to Brain, overalls give way to gown, the proletariat educates itself, and the Monitor is happy. All's right with the world while the great god Statistics holds sway, and the Janus of these days smiles with equal radiance in both directions...
...another innovation, when Harvard and Yale send their glee clubs to Symphony Hall, for a joint concert. The ancien regime of banality in college music has suffered much of late; there have been signs of insurrection among many of those once satisfied with it. The concert Thursday appears, Janus-like, at a time when the past shows no little success, and the future augurs well. The colleges, and through them much of America are growing up to good music. Inevitably they must strike false notes as they move, but still they progress, and their pace has been considerably accelerated...
...hearth fires where criticism, like Aristotelianism, is a thing easily possessed. Romanticism when it means the conquest of more matter by the mind and courage of man is so satisfying, so adequate that one wonders after all if at times romanticism and classicism are not two faces of a Janus who is the world...
...Heaven," as we know, "lies about us in our infancy". But the very "gates of Heaven" themselves, it now appears, enfold those who, by superior dullness and strange conceits, have attained the blissful state of a second childhood. Nav, more! This "Janus Coeli", these futuristic portals with their synthetic inginitudes will receive not merely the humble inebriate but his wives and child--if he wish--as well. The millenium of Shadwellism is upon us. Waes Hael! Gadzooks...