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e Holman. “Good taste Is ibif in-stlnct trained. The throe principal dementi in home decoration are elimination, rearrangement and discrimination in buying, We want decoration not aggregation, Ant above all dec-.orations should never interfere with use, Miss Holman described the Psychological meanings of colo»i# illustrating her talk by displaying colors singly and in combination.IJiftCtissea Modern Literature, Literature was represented on the program by J. H, Lawrence, head of the College Music department, who spoke interestingly cm “Tlie Trend of Our Literature since 1912,” Mr. Lawrence die-„ countenanced the theory that the war was responsible for America’s literary realism.'The war bad little to do with the rice* and virtues of the new literature, he said. “The war will modify our literature onlv after years of reflection. Immigration is one factor which is gradually changing our rational character and hence our literature. We are ;ust beginning to see the effect of this amalgamation of many races. Puritanism is gradually losing Us hohJ on the Amerloftu people. The new literature is a revolt against Puritanism and Henttmentalism, Booth Tarkington was characterized by Mr. Lawrence as “the last of the Victorian sentimental-lts, who persists in the virtues of optimlfim, humor and respect.Chance, pessimism and distortion aro characteristics of the naturalistic phase of literary realism, he said, “The new romanticism has been called fundamental realism. Both' it and naturalism spring from hatred of the meanness and ugliness of modern life.Ifn
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Emporia Weekly Gazette
Emporia, Kansas, US
Thu, Apr 28, 1927
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