Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play recounts the mental agonies of a groping adolescent from Iowa who expects wonders of life and can make none of his dreams come true. Iowa and his 100% American home prove too much for him-par-ticularly after an unsuccessful attempt has been made to condemn him to Yale and he flies to New York. There he encounters another rebellious but less illusionary young person from home-a girl who finds life a hoax and love nothing but filth...
Persons anxious to condemn the younger generation should remember that the worst of a thing, like an excrescence, is always the most evident while what is truly of worth is silent and unseen. When people who engage in such criticism realize this truth there will be less indiscriminate condemnation. ADRIEN GAMBET '25 October...
Perhaps we shouldn't have classed Mrs. Loring's book as a "Western novel". That may condemn it yet unread to many a reader. But it will commend it to as many more; so we will not retract...
...condemn the French, is there any rhyme or reason in sanctioning Shakespeare, Milton, Gibbon, even the Bible, in whose pages may be found "foul and indecent" passages? They too have been censored in the past. In fact, to put the shoe on the other foot, the Parisian authorities once, banned Fielding's "Tom Jones", to the righteous glee of Richardson, who had never forgiven Fielding for his burlesque on "Pamela". But today we accept classics in English as they are, dirty and not washed behind the ears, if you like, but still themselves, uncensored. To discriminate against such classics because...
More than fitting it is, moreover, that Boston should be the first to condemn and banish the labours of its own sons in order that the homes of those sturdy descendants of the Puritans, -- the O'Rourkes, the Flahertys and the O'Houlihans,--may be kept inviolate even as that stern-eyed Roman, the elder Brutus, sentenced to death his own son for treachery to the state...