Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working skill, but as long as there hangs in the background of their minds a recollection of the thousands who have felt exactly as they feel, as long as they remember that, strangely enough, the world originated in Missouri, as long as they appreciate the exquisite comedy of Self, age 22, leading the universe in complete subjection, the harmony of the spheres is safe for yet a few ages more...
...this age of democracy and Bolshevism it is probably heresy to declare that the theory that every boy should have a college education is thoroughly untenable. But any man who has had any experience or practical contact with college students knows that the theory is untenable. There are those who are actually harmed by going to college. Some are wholly spoiled. They forget whatever habits of industry they may have had and they cultivate extravagant tastes. If they were learning something the situation wouldn't be so bad, but usually they are the very ones who take the most care...
...come to recompense the toiling undergraduate for this his greatest loss. Here and there a hip pocket bulges happily, now and again the Puritanic fragrance of the Yard is spiced with a more pleasing aroma. All in all, however, the era of John has passed. We enter upon the age of Fortuna. Things may not be moving forward, but they certainly are moving...
...colleges we must first lift the epoch on which the colleges are superimposed; that the colleges are not poisoning education; that the colleges and education are poisoned together at the wells of modern civilization. For beneath all isolated mistakes lies the common ground of a sophisticated and second-rate age, an age critical but not creative, impulsive but not inspired, analytical but not scholarly...
...such an age, Freud, naturally, is extremely popular. It remains for Mr. Train to perpetrate the culminative absurdity by introducing Freud into a fairy tale. In a "Song for Children and Others," the author instructs his audience that "fairy stories are not by Grimms and Andersens, as the common legend runs, but are built up out of the subconscious wishes of children. But if you want to find out more about that, you must ask Freud, who, no doubt, knows more about fairy tales than most of us. . ." I suppose that we may soon overhear from the nursery, "Now, Mary...