Word: banalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their phrase [attributed to Mussolini] that 'Fascismo is not an article for exportation' is not mine. It is too banal. It was adopted for the readers of newspapers who in order to understand anything need to have it translated into terms of commercial jargon. In any case it must now be amended...
...fail to tell their friends about him. Work in the mines gave him a physique such as few tycoons possess; 16-hour mine days gave him an enormous disdain for the eight-hour office day. He speaks briefly, forcefully, never detours issues. His formula for success is simple, not banal: "I have not cluttered my head with things not in my line...
...Iliad. He even attempted to get into the mood of the Greek drama but-somewhere or other he has learned that the needy catchword for the theatre of Sophocles is "simplicity." He tried, yes and diligently, but whoever could attain quiet and simplicity amid the thundering cement-grinders, seemingly banal excavations, and unutterable chaos mixed with modern Georgian architecture which has flooded the Cantabrigtan shores? His advice is to take "The New Criterion," and call...
Saturday is not usually much of a day for the Vagabond to make his rounds of the lecture haunts. And were it not banal to talk about the weather it might well be added that these blue skies shine on other paths besides those of board which lead to Sever and the like of Sever. Now this may not be an enthusiastic introduction to the lectures of the day. But stop and consider, any manifestation of interest in things academic under present conditions is a certain sign of something in the offing worth listening...
...bluster and gaucherie, was admirable rather than asinine. His virtues were particularly apparent by contrast with those of an epicine playwright whom he encountered on the way. In dramatizing the story, Arthur Goodrich has entirely neglected this central theme, has treated all the characters broadly and achieved a completely banal degree of farce. The performance by Charles Douville Coburn, Ivah Wills Coburn and their supporting cast is, at best, foolish...