The Psychology of RelaxationHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 280 pagine |
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Pagina 72 - And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground; And no voice but was praising this...
Pagina 71 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; "Speed...
Pagina 250 - Ouf! what a relief! Now for something primordial and savage, even though it were as bad as an Armenian massacre, to set the balance straight again. This order is too tame, this culture too second-rate, this goodness too uninspiring. This human drama without a villain or a pang; this community so refined that ice-cream soda-water is the utmost offering it can make to the brute animal in man; this city simmering in the tepid lakeside sun; this atrocious harmlessness of all things, — I cannot abide...
Pagina 82 - Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water-bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud-turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water-lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hay fields, pine cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets ; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of his education.
Pagina 47 - ... adults, such, for instance, as base-ball, foot-ball, tennis, golf, polo, billiards and countless other games and sports ; diversions such as traveling, hunting, fishing, yachting, motoring, flying, dancing; vacation outings, games, races, spectacles, fairs, tournaments and expositions; the theatre, opera, moving pictures, lectures and entertainments ; the enjoyment of music, painting, poetry and other arts ; the daily paper, the magazine, the short story and the novel.
Pagina 135 - Beneath the quiet humdrum life that reason and society have fashioned for us, it stirs something within us which luckily does not explode, but which it makes us feel in its inner tension. It offers nature her revenge upon society. Sometimes it makes straight for the goal, summoning up to the surface, from the depths below, passions that produce a general upheaval. Sometimes it effects a flank movement, as is often the case in contemporary drama; with a skill that is frequently sophistical, it shows...
Pagina 47 - Those human activities which are free and spontaneous and which are pursued for their own sake alone...
Pagina 264 - We hear about the educational value of the moving pictures. Surely, if this is education, it is of an antiquated kind. Every educator now knows that an education in which the child is passive and quiescent is of little value. The child must respond, he must react to his impressions. Flashing before his eyes a lot of scenes is not education, even when the scenes themselves are of a harmless character.
Pagina 134 - Dramatic art forms no exception to this law. What drama goes forth to discover and brings to light, is a deepseated reality that is veiled from us, often in our own interests, by the necessities of life. What is this reality? What are these necessities? Poetry always expresses inward states. But amongst these states some arise mainly from contact with our fellow-men. They are the most intense as well as the most violent. As contrary electricities attract each other and accumulate between the two...
Pagina 52 - Hence we understand why children's play and adult sport take the form of hunting, fishing, camping, outing, swimming, climbing, and so on through the long list. The more elemental these activities have been in the history of racial development, the greater release they afford when indulged in as relaxation from the tension of our modern life.