Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After welcoming the delegates to the Convention. Dean Briggs expressed the hope shared, he said, by several of the liberal clubs there represented that neither names in English polities nor any thing else would blind the prospective league to the true meaning of liberalism, "Radicals", he continued, "may be liberals, but liberalism does not mean radicalism: socialists may be liberal, but liberalism does not mean socialism. There are bigotted conservatives, and equally bigotted radicals: there are bigotted capitalists and equally bigotted socialists. Only one belief is essential to a liberal a belief in the right of every man and every...
...chief contention of the book is the falsity of the long accepted economic theory that men are rational beings who make their decisions according to reason and what they believe to be right. For this conception the authors would substitute an explanation by blind economic forces which have brought about the present social and industrial situation. Neither the capitalists nor the mass of workers can by persuasion be brought to see the follies of existing institutions and the necessity for change. Parliamentary action cannot accomplish the necessary end for a variety of reasons; revolution directed by intelligent, class-conscious members...
...later years one will ask less about the blame for the War and more for the blame for the Peace. The present Entente meetings are simply frightened, blind searchings for a solution in which only capitalistic damages and the satisfaction of Chauvinistic desires are taken into regard. Not a word about real peace, amnesty, general disarmament or all the noble objectives for which the youth of the Allied nations fought and died...
...misdirected perhaps--that the League of Nations is actually in existence; his enthusiasm made what was held to be a dream a reality. We are so close to the man that it is easy to throw stones, easy to scoff at the worship he received in Europe. His faults blind the virtues which others...
...cast of the play is as follows: The King, W. V. M. Fawcett '21 The Queen, Miss Catherine MacLarnie '21 The Princess Nuala, Miss Dorothy Googins '22 The Dall Glic, the Blind Wise Man, Joseph Skinner '24 The Nurse, Miss Mildred Ellis '21 The Prince of the Marshes, J. J. Collier '23 Manus, King of Sorcha, W. B. Leach, Jr. '22 Fintan, the Astrologer, Burke Boyee '22 Taig, Philip Wardner '24 Sibby, Taig's Mother, Miss Elizabeth Gatlin '23 Gatekeeper, F. C. d'Elseaux Une Two Aunts of the Prince of the Marshes, Miss Eleanor McCormack '21 Miss Marjorie Toland...