Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strange Interlude" there are poetic outbursts from Nina identifying God with herself as an all-compassionate Mother, and men as flashes in the electrical display of God. In "Mourning Becomes Electra" the dramatist seemed to drift into a completely mechanistic attitude, at least to give expression to such a concept. "Days Without End" is indeed a modern miracle play, if we consider this undercurrent attitude even in its barest outline...
...emergency legislation; the personnel record of the court, the general surprise at Chief Justice Hughes' position, indicate that the majority hinges upon him. The minority opinion of Justices Sutherland, Butler, McReynolds, and van Devanter might have been written in the nineteenth century; it expresses all the governmental and constitutional concepts with which each of them has been associated since his election to the court. No less uncompromising is the stand of Justices Brandeis and Cardozo. There is still no reason to believe that Justice Stone supported the majority decision on grounds more far reaching than those of the Chief Justice...
Carleton Beals contributes a detailed criticism of the Montevideo conference, happily free of the old saws and penetrating on the real extent of the concept of good will. There is a salve, in story form, on the installment buying system by William Trufant Foster; and a very, very conventional restatement of the silver argument, this time called "Honest Inflation," by one Edward Tuck. The most valuable contribution to Scribners comes from V. F. Calverton. Mr. Calverton is concerned with a sane revaluation of Thomas Paine, and he shows that among the many ironies of Paine's life, the most bitter...
...light. In 1887 he and Edward W. Morley rigged up an interferometer, raced two beams of light against each other, one parallel to the earth's motion, the other perpendicular. The two beams arrived at their common destination at the same instant. This historic experiment discredited the ether-concept. Eighteen years later Albert Einstein posited the central feature of the "special theory of relativity"-that there was no such thing as the motion of bodies through a stationary ether, that bodies could move only in relation to one another. Meanwhile Michelson had begun a lifetime task of determining...
...perhaps the United States had no secondary schools which could feed a college of this kind. But revolutionary changes are adjusted by time, and even secondary schools can be taught to improve. A more persistent enemy lies in the conviction that there was something holy and inviolable in the concept of course credits, in the idea that a college should award its degree on the basis of separate goals achieved, and the achievement recorded. To this conviction is linked an idea incomprehensible to the European, the idea that the college should police the minds of its undergraduates, perpetually making trivial...