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It seemed to me, in short, that a poem by Bragdon, while it might easily show the poet's fancy, could not fail to show also the produce-broker's clumsiness of touch. His charm was the spontaneity of his spoken words, his enthusiastic personality disarming all criticism; what the labored productions of his fancy might prove to be, I hardly dared think.
Those who had once sworn by her swore by her still, and were loath to admit even to themselves that her early style of acting easy, flowing, impulsive, the natural translation in action of a strong and imaginative nature must remain what, in the long absence of the actress, it had become, a beautiful tradition of the stage, that her present personations were wanting in force and spontaneity, that they were efforts, rather than inspirations, were marked by a weary tension of thought, were careful, but not composed, roughened by unsteady strokes of genius, freshly furrowed with labor.
The people whom they like and trust are usually quiet, simple people, who have not startling ways, and do not manifest those strenuous ideals which destroy all sense of leisure in life. Not only little children but those who are growing up resent these mannerisms and professional ways. They, too, ask for a certain spontaneity and like to find a real person whom they can understand.
There is what no one would refuse to call genius. There is originality, spontaneity, insatiable interest, unceasing labor. And the result? A marvelous skill for which society has almost no use, and a knowledge of the science of arithmetic which is two hundred years behind that of the high school graduate.
Further proof of ancient origin is to be found in what is the great literary beauty of the poem its pure spontaneity and simplicity. It is the production of an intensely imaginative race, to which song came as the most natural expression of joy and sorrow, terror or triumph a class which lay near to nature's secret, and was not out of sympathy with the wild kin of woods and waters.
She perceived that she had moved throughout like an automaton swayed by a will outside its own; functioning rather than living; performing appointed business, executing prescribed gestures, uttering foreordained observations, and making dictated responses, all without suggestion of spontaneity, and all without meaning other than as means to bridge an empty space of waiting. Waiting for what?
His tendency to pomposity is not redeemed by the naïveté and spontaneity of his masters. The inferiority of Johnson's written to his spoken utterances is indicative of his divided life. There are moments at which his writing takes the terse, vigorous tone of his talk.
"Oh, glorious!" she cried, her face alight with joy and fine enthusiasm. All her spontaneity, her love and admiration were aroused. And she kissed him with so frank and glad a love that Stern felt his heart jump wildly. He thought she never yet had been so beautiful. But all he said was: "Couldn't run finer, little girl! Barring a little stiffness here and there, she's perfect.
He could not be simple, he could not be spontaneous; he was tormented by self-consciousness, and it was impossible to him to talk and behave as those talk and behave who have been brought up more or less in the big world from the beginning. So this dream, too, faded, for youth asks, before all things, simplicity and spontaneity in those who would take possession of it.
To the Director, dilemmas are painful, unnecessary, destructive, or at best disruptive. His utopian world the one he constructed for Truman is choice-free and dilemma-free. Truman is programmed not in the sense that his spontaneity is extinguished.
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