. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. were being forgotten in favorof the gods of disorder. Aphrodite, in her most carnalaspect, and vine-wreathed Dionysos were dissipating theserene dignity and grace wrought by the power of PallasAthene, Hermes, Diana. Potters clay largely sup- ?Narodnys argument on this point proceeds: The chief character-istics of the American mind are to condense expressions and ide
. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. were being forgotten in favorof the gods of disorder. Aphrodite, in her most carnalaspect, and vine-wreathed Dionysos were dissipating theserene dignity and grace wrought by the power of PallasAthene, Hermes, Diana. Potters clay largely sup- ?Narodnys argument on this point proceeds: The chief character-istics of the American mind are to condense expressions and ideas into thwshortest forms. This is most evident in the syncopated style of its music, inits language and in its architecture. Like the American ragtmie tune, anAmerican skyscraper is the result of an impressionistic miagination. Bothare crude in their present form, yet they speak a language of an unethno-eraphic race and form the foundation of a new art. , . ^, Instead of having a floating, graceful and, so to speak, a horizontal Thirty-on« Children are quick to feel the impulse to rise upon the ball of the foot evenwhen that limb is sustaining the bodys entire weight—one of the principal requisites of Greek dancing. The Classic Ideal—and Ours planted marble as material upon which the record ofhuman life was graven. The little clay dancing figuresof Tanagra, in the Fourth Century B. C, are charming,but they tell only too plainly the story of moral andspiritual degeneration, which, at the beginning of theChristian era, had placed the Golden Age in total eclipse. In our country to-day the tendencies are exactlythe reverse. We are rapidly ridding ourselves of our old-world heritage of drunkenness, profligacy and pharisee-ism. With respect to drink we are becoming temperatealmost to the point of abstention; over-eating is entirelyout of fashion; many of our wealthiest families set ex-amples of simple living, discouraging arrogant display,idleness and class distinctions. All ou
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