Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the simplicity and unselfconsciousness of the Russian, Gorky bares his own soul in the hope that the world may see the effect that the great man made upon him. At times he believes that Tolstoy is actually not man but god, and it is this belief which he seems most anxious to have verified. And so it is that he closes his volume of reminiscences: "And I, who doe not believe in God, looked at him for some time very cautiously, and a little timidly. I looked and thought: This man is god-like...
...love and murder by the jealous spirit of his wife's first husband--is due rather to the author's technique than to any special merit in the merit itself. It is the touches of realism and the excellent protrayal of the characters of these Castilian peasants, that sustain belief in the actuality of the story...
...Mason's perspicacity in discerning that an intelligent man with "Honest Beliefs" can expiate his treason only by being kept locked up, is commendable. I agree with his inference that only by confining such a man can he be made harmless. Mr. Mason, who is well aware that ours is a government by, not of, the majority, compels my respect by the clearness with which he perceives that the "thousands, even millions" who venture from the good road trod by the respectable majority are "uneducated" and "unthinking". I even go with him in his implied belief that the word...
...reiterates his review; and asks for articles about football or essays that shall relate the college class-room and literature. He indicates that some people are too prone to think of compositions about Shelley as being necessarily superior to writings about football. That many of us incline to this belief is thoroughly true. We bolster our supposition with the perspective of memory which asserts that pages about Shelley are indeed more likely to be well lettered and less subject to mortality than quartos about athletics. Mr. Allen flings the courteous gauntlet that may not remain unnoticed...
...attempting to evade the penalty of her acts in characteristic fashion. Her economic condition, she claims, is not equal to the sum demanded; her debts are too large; she cannot pay: and because Germans are very clever at specious arguing many are won to the belief that the amount specified is really too large. A careful examination of the facts in the case, however, proves the German statements to be false. It has been shown by investigation that there are no accurate figures of the real financial status of Germany available. The German Government has carefully gone over the documents...