Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...develish ingenuity of this plan to deprive the poor pigeon of a happy old age surrounded by a circle of his loved ones can do nothing but outrage the feelings of all God fearing people, who will see in this nothing but a new attempt to endanger the sanctity of the home and the sacred institution of marriage...
Nearly everyone agreed on faults. The play dragged toward the end. As age smothered the characters their dramatic interest dwindled slightly. The asides were not always accurately and shrewdly handled; the new technique was necessarily a trifle coarse. Rose the inevitable foolish chorus that Nina was a vile female and should never have been written up at all. Some strove to discredit it with the growl that O'Neill had simply taken many findings of the psychoanalysts and copied them into his characters...
...forgotten name. Unlike many women of less innate genius, she caused no kingdoms to change hands, married no prince, inspired no desperate armies to an improbable triumph. Her career was merely that of a successful courtesan; but because she secured for her lovers the most distinguished men of her age, because her wit and charm per- mitted her to become simultaneously a notably fashionable as well as a notoriously promiscuous figure, because her refusal to marry was based partly on her unwillingness to accept the conventional limitations of femininity, she has been remembered. Her influence in succeeding generations has been...
...editorials that the former CRIMSON editor and Rhodes scholar has the most fault to find; here it is that the professional atmosphere has done the most damage. "For", says Dean Nichols, "judgement, tact, good taste, discretion--all qualities essential to editorial columns are the qualities which develop only with age and experience. And it is not surprising that young men just turning twenty occasionally err in these respects. The unfortunate aspect of the situation is that in this day of far flung publicity those errors are flung broadeast through the country. And the graduates humiliated and ashamed and, perhaps...
...that condition. Nor can we change the situation so long as this difference between the European and the American culture exists. Perhaps the relief for the colleges to which President Lowell looks forward will have to rest, as he suggests, on the commencement of serious teaching at a younger age on the carrying on of early instruction at a more rapid and intensive rate. And here, once more, we come into conflict with the American psychology. As a people, we are very tender of our children's minds. We regard life as a severe practical struggle as a battle...