Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are--oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English a crime against the language. Counting these out, what is left is Art. I think we must all admit that...
...John N. Browning of Maysville, Ky. (TIME, Dec. 13) seems to be more favorably impressed with your speed of getting news to the readers of your publication than I. I will admit that for a weekly devoting its columns to current news, TIME does wonders in getting its news out in the shortest possible time. But seven days, in this age, means much to news. There is always embarrassment for me when I am informed by friends that topics that I introduce for discussion often prove a week or two weeks old. This, I blame to TIME...
...sorrows of every day life were portrayed with more vividness and directness. Practically speaking. Euripides became the founder of the romantic drama and it is interesting in view of this to note that A. W. Schlegel, the very fountain head of the great German romantic movement would scarcely admit that his dramas were tolerable...
...brought it to your attention because I think it is one way of introducing the element of seriousness into American education which will cause. American students to give more attention to the great problems of political, social and religious life which confront us today. For any careful observer must admit that there is taking place before our very eyes a disintegration of standards which must give great concern unless we know the direction in which we are moving and the foundations which we are laying...
Another example of the enigmatic questions which the potential respondent faces is "Were you brought up in a religious home?" Even the most pious will admit that there are religious homes and religious homes, and that what makes them religious constitutes one of the chief causes of the Reformation and all subsequent schisms. The questionnaire is presumably non-dimensional and as such has little interest in sects. Nevertheless the distinctions between modern churches are sometimes of such very great breadth that one cannot subscribe to the tenets of dissimilar faiths, deeply as one may sympathize with them in their ambition...