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The English word square dates to the 13th century and derives from the Old French esquarre.By the 1570s, it was in use in reference to someone or something honest or fair. [3] [4] This positive sense is preserved in phrases such as "fair and square", meaning something done in an honest and straightforward manner, [5] and "square deal", meaning an outcome equitable to all sides. [6]
One can imagine, in thieves' cant, the term "square" being associated first with cops, and then with ordinary citizens-- finally becoming a bohemian term of exclusion. Rhinoracer 14:14, 4 October 2006 (UTC) Until the 1950s, to be "square" was a good thing. It meant being truthful, honest, upright... like the geometric figure.
This ethic was articulated by Bessie Anderson Stanley in 1911 (in a quote often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson): "To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
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2. "Dancers are made, not born." –Mikhail Baryshnikov 3. "The body says what the words cannot." –Martha Graham 4. "To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
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"Square peg in a round hole" is an idiomatic expression which describes the unusual individualist who could not fit into a niche of their society. [1]The metaphor was originated by Sydney Smith in "On the Conduct of the Understanding", one of a series of lectures on moral philosophy that he delivered at the Royal Institution in 1804–06:
Scorsese reexamined a man being trapped inside a picture in the 1990 Japanese-American magical realist Dreams, where he plays Vincent van Gogh who ventures into his painting Wheatfield with Crows. [6] Sangster wrote that when Algernon moves his belongings to a new apartment, it is similar to a scene in David Fincher's 1999 drama Fight Club. [6]