Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject for this first debate, far from being a metaphysical question for abstract reasoning, calls for the sort of treatment in which witty sallies and spirited repartee have a prominent place. "Resolved: That Harvard Should Be More Collegiate" is a subject which should bring out all the champions of Harvard Orthodoxy in defense of traditional indifference. The affirmative side, likewise, should have a numerous representation, and they might very properly enliven the evening by appearing dressed for their part in artistically decorated yellow slickers, stick candy hat bands and great-necked campus sweaters...
Members of the First Baptist Church, especially the men, began to be proud of him. He knew a lot. His sermons were not merely repetitions of abstract nouns and pious adjectives. When he preached, he set his verbs to work, pulling facts, incidents, aphorisms, from Classical History, Renaissance, Art, Modern Business...
...majority of the critics. It was called "lei- surely," "diffuse," and "over-decorated." These critics evidently had some subconscious resentment of its lack of sex-appeal, of its subtly pulled punches, of its tragic ending. They seemed to miss the brilliant economy, the unfailing feeling for composition, the somewhat abstract treatment of a legendary story. Probably they are movie critics be- cause they reflect tastes of the movie public. This public will probably reject Siegfried; but this rejection slip in no way implies lack of cinematographic merit...
...would not be caught laughing at it. This son of moonlight and custard pie crust was a green pea off the knives of the intelligentsia until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some Italian lake with my beloved Shelley, Keats, and violin. ... I am too tragic by nature. ... I don't give a damn about anybody. ..." Critics took him up. On the strength of his avowed penchant...
...seeing justice done squabbled amongst themselves as to who should be chosen and in what order they should rank. In the excitement, Teacher Scopes became the forgotten instrument of a Great Cause. In the minds of one group of the Scopes advisors, this Cause was the dignified one of abstract academic freedom. This group wanted Lawyer Charles E. Hughes to lend distinction to the case. Others were for "jazzing" the case, splashing it in even larger type through 'the headlines of newspapers, thoroughly airing and "teaching the people" the theory of evolution. These men wanted Lawyers Clarence Darrow...