Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success of the Debating Union this year will depend very largeley on the success of this first debate. All students who hope to enter public life should make it their business that the Debating Union be perpetuated at Harvard to contribute to Harvard education that which, from the age of Demosthenes to the present, has rightfully been conceded a prominent place in a liberal education...
...Osaka, Japan, one Senichiro Tokuriki, shoemaker, lived with his wife until his two sons, Kazuo and Saburo, had reached the age of 18 and 19 respectively. Then, thinking that they were doubtless competent to fend for the woman, he chose another wife (a very lotus blossom for fairness) and moved away. The mother grieved herself to the edge of death, and the two lads, seeing that it was no laughing matter, took counsel together. They thought of a way to make their father come home. One night when there was no moon they stole out of the house and made...
...growing popularity of wit for wits sake both in literature and in the drawing-room has led the editors of the Bookman to suggest that contemporary society in living in another age of Pope. The ascendancy of the light, smart novel as exemplified by Arlen, van Vechten, Huxley and their school, the Restoration atmosphere of the stage, the cynicism of the columnists--all point, they think, to "the hollowness of the times, a Godlessly clever age...
There is, however, one great and radical difference between the literature of today and that of the eighteenth century, which makes the similarity of this age and that of Pope nothing more than a one-sided resemblance. The neoclassical age was preeminently an age of form. Today the fashion runs to formlessness. Instead of the stately heroic couplet, poetry now flies to the freedom of vers libre. Instead of the terse, direct prose of Swift, satire now expresses itself in the genial lunacy of Donald Ogden Stewart or Ronald Fairbank...
When one reads today of the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is very difficult to make real the issues which were involved and which, in themselves, indicate the greatest difference between the spirit of that age and this. Likewise, when one reads of the conflict now going on at Yale for the abolition of compulsory attendance at chapel, it taxes the imagination to understand how such a thing can be possible in a community which everybody believes is more enlightened than that, say, of Dayton, Tennessee...