Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is too chaotic, too long, too inconclusive to tell here. Briefly, it has to do with a master ship builder who yearns for an heir to carry on the great work of six generations of Trumbulls. The heir comes, a precocious, spindle legged little child who dies because his father forced him along too fast. The elder Trumbull becomes embittered, loses his grip, and meets disaster upon disaster, until at the end his despised daughter guides him into the paths of truth. This is the sort of thing that can be, and has been, done well, but never...
...Setting morals aside, Japanese rule has proven more efficient than Chinese. Japanese troops along the Southern Manchurian Railway (long before the recent Japanese occupation of Manchuria) induced comparative peace. Result: 1,000,000 Chinese have been emigrating from chaotic central China to Manchuria each year, seeking the Pax Japana...
...Union, which has been a spiritless place for the last few years, takes on new life this year under the Freshman regime. Far from being merely an eating-place, it bids fair to become an important unifying influence during the chaotic first days of first-year men. The Freshman class, usually inarticulate and paralyzed, is to find a voice in the newly appointed Committee of Ten, which has been selected with a strong attempt to secure a representative group. While this committee will deal with certain of the routine matters of funds and smokers, there is good hope that...
...public mind with the awesome shades of colossally Big Business. But he did not sound like a very confirmed capitalist last week when he said: "We can retain in this country unorganized, individual planning and operation, but, if we do, its action will be at times necessarily chaotic, and we shall, as a result, pay the economic penalty of that disorder, such as we are paying...
...others are analyzed or even psychoanalyzed and the purpose and method in their apparent madness are clearly and succinctly examined. The frequent discontinuities of action and the indefinite blurring and even incoherent quality of these authors are attributed to the multiplicity of selves within the individual and the generally chaotic and tangled mass of impulses which govern conscious action. This attempt to delineate incipient thought and the very springs of consciousness have necessitated a new technique especially in those writers like Joyce who are tending toward what might be called the steam of subconsciousness in which even the words...