Word: plasticities
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...familiar sawed-off figure of Abie with his slick black hair, big nose, thick lips and mustache, cigaret and smoke rings, did not appear in the Graphic's strip. Instead there was this lettered dialog issuing from the transom of a door labelled "Z. Eppess. Plastic Surgeon...
This change of emphasis is especially important for work in the plastic and pictorial arts, for action and reaction are apt to follow so swiftly at each other's heels that it becomes difficult to preserve the best of the old in the new. Art becomes petrified in ceaseless change. Especially since the nineteenth century the liberation of art has tended to become its libertinage. The historical view can be among the best of those reality-correctives which determine the fine balance between technique and substance...
...Knoxville, Tenn., impressed citizens gave Sam Lockett a suit, a trip to Chicago and the price of a plastic operation because he forgave Sam Pratt, who had cut off his nose...
That Scarface Al Capone was "rubbed out" by gangsters two years ago; that his halfbrother, Giacomo Calabrese, was then scarred by a plastic surgeon to resemble the dead chieftain and that Calabrese has since impersonated Capone as a figurehead for Gangster Johnny Torrio who really rules the underworld; that it was Calabrese who was arrested and jailed in Philadelphia in 1929; that not more than five gangsters were aware of the real Capone's death and the subsequent impersonation...
Furthermore, applauding at every lecture may be an unconscious factor in determining the intellectual approach of, the speaker, particularly if he be still plastic and progressive in spirit. The possibility that it may be harmful to the teacher should discredit its use. In addition the undergraduates themselves on some occasions would often not like to applaud, but feel it too great a rebuff not to do so. At other times it commences with one enthusiast and it is only participated in by others out of politeness. With all these things taken into consideration, it would seem best to discontinue this...