Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mere fact that the Klan should exist is cause for surprise. That college men, especially Harvard College men, supposedly rational and tolerant, should accept the doctrines of the Klan, founded as they are on blind prejudice and fierce racial bitterness, is extraordinary. It is but little excuse, however much it may serve to explain the situation, that the romantic and mysterious glamor of hooded figures of the inborn American craving to belong to something are probably the real attraction...
...author of The Blind Bow-Boy is a tall, slim, white-haired, slightly florid young man of middle age. I have often observed him, have corresponded with him, but have never consciously spoken to him. I should have a constant fear that he would ruin some pet illusion of mine by a vagrant flippancy?and that I should be tempted to attempt to knock him down where he stood. Yet from all accounts Carl Van Vechten is a charming fellow. He is fond of cats (as the world reading his books knows). He has lived much on the Continent...
...Vechten is a brilliant writer. Parts of Peter Whiffle, parts of The Blind Bow-Boy, more particularly certain portions of his essays exhibit rare qualities of humor and beauty. Yet his books lack body and form, even that body and form which the frothiest of literary efforts must have. When I think of Van Vechten and his work, I think immediately of an expert characterization of his own in describing the heroine, Campaspe, in The Blind Bow-Boy. " Her body," he writes, " is her chief mental pleasure...
...mayhap, the hungry student, entering Jimmie's or the Waldorf, may find at his shoulders a brass-buttoned upholder of the law listening intently to make sure that such a misleading and damaging term as "black and tan" is not employed. The logical sequence, of course will be the "blind puppie" where, for two or three times the ordinary price, one may still feel the thrill of quietly whispering to the man behind the counter: "One hot-dog plenty of mustard...
...point of fact the yearning yokel has run the engine of his one-track mind into a blind switch. Managers do read plays. That is to say, managers see to it that plays are read. In the larger offices individuals are employed for that express purpose. They read four to six plays a day. With a shudder they send the ninety and nine incredibly bad plays whence they came. The best they place in analyzed detail on the manager's desk...