Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that "critics who believe that the U. S. is death to genius" have adduced in support of their argument the loneliness and despair that embittered Lafcadio Hearn's American days, but it is also true that Hearn did his best creative work (Chita, Youma, Stray Leaves, Some Chinese Ghosts, etc.) before he went to Japan. In technical excellence Hearn's Japanese writings never surpass, and are often inferior to, his earlier work; while even a cursory comparison of the two groups of writings will suffice to show that the Japanese period is marked by a constant waning...
...shall not have attained to the age of 30 years. . . .), Senators enlarged for hours on their meaning. Did that mean that a Senator must be 30 when he was elected? Or when his term normally began? Or when he claimed his seat? Senator Hiram Johnson of California excused his argument against the last contention by turning to the Holt parents in the gallery and declaring: "I take this course solely because I believe it is every man's duty to do the things he thinks he ought...
...again & again as required. Armistice begins when the armies withdraw to their assigned positions, begin to demobilize to 5,000 men apiece, while the neutral commission patrols the strip between. Meanwhile, under the eye of the neutral peace conference, Bolivia and Paraguay will try again to settle their territorial argument by talk. Assuming that they fail again, the controversy will automatically go for arbitration to the World Court...
...They incline to be irritable, neurotic, seclusive, but are lonely less frequently than divorced men. They want steady, permanent work, have less initiative, resolution and self-confidence than the other groups, but like change, outside work, think well of being railway conductors. They are quick to argue but dislike argument. They study their problems alone but prefer not to take chances alone. They pretend to be radicals but are actually conservative. They like to make radio sets, repair clocks, drive automobiles; are not much interested in languages, philosophy, music, literature...
With the field swept clear of rivals, Du Bois laboriously reconstructs his picture of the turbulent years from documents they neglected, facts they did not stress. Most modern readers can accept without argument his thesis that Negro slavery constituted one of the gravest problems the U. S. faced after the Revolutionary War, will be startled to learn that early U. S. leaders admitted they could visualize no solution, shocked at Du Bois's account of the commercial breeding of slaves that followed the Constitutional end of the slave trade (1808). He holds that the South "turned the most beautiful...