Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such strongholds of the "old" history as Harvard this work will be officially frowned upon. Not that it is inexact, or without an array of carefully marshalled factual material. But it is strange ambitious, novel. It is these things inspite of its precursors, men who have tried before to connect history with the reality of life, and not merely with its flags and trappings, who have realized, to quote the Beards themselves, that "the heritage, politics, economics, culture and international filiations of any civilization are so closely woven by fate into one fabric that no human eye can discern...
...critical may object to "Pickwick" because it has no plot--but it has as much plot as a revue and ten times the humor. Moreover, the imposing array of Wardles, Wellers, and Dickensonian whatnots, compensate for any lack of structure. "The Pickwick Papers" had no definite plot; to have invented one for its dramatic counterpart would have been to lose much of the spirit of the original...
...Gregg remarks that with two editors in the Church, and two in the courts, the contribution of the Lampoon to these professions ceases. In an imposing array of exotic psychological terms he attempts to account for this defection. The real reason need not by shrouded in abstractions. From time immemorial, these professions have not been absent, from the stock, in trade of humorists. To remain consistent with their early merry selves, college humorists doubtless steer very clear of legal and ecclesiastical waters. Humorists may be a number of things, but they are not traitors...
Between elections the windy City seems to amuse itself with choruses and saccharine songs, in the approved fashion of soft-headed, hard fisted story book heroes. And those venturesome native sons who dare to return home for their Easter oggs will find a pleasant and only slightly faded array of shows waiting for them. The critics say these are the best...
When the Harvard cases finally do come up, the defense will have a larger array of witnesses than before with which to fight the issue. The trial, however, will not be so involved inasmuch as there are fewer defendants than formerly...