Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...then attacks the errors of a too idealistic pacifism. There is no doubt that idealists and dreamers enlisted in this cause have put forth many impractical theories and proposals. This does not affect the maintenance of a sane and temperate attitude in the question of armament increase. A sharp contrast between the two types of pacifist has just been furnished by the resignation of Mr. Bryan, due to his disagreement with President Wilson. The President's policy, never that of non-resistance, has been such as to inspire the confidence and support of the whole country...
...hurts somebody's feelings. He is there to earn his living as competently as he can, and he is not eaten with hatred for anybody. What is the use of futile demonstrations against his decisions? The stands may well follow the example of the members of the team in contrast to some of our more hot-headed opponents...
...Unrealists: A Contrast," by J. S. Watson, Jr., is a learned dissertation on various forms of fiction writing including aliegorism, satirism and unrealism with special reference to the writings of the two English unrealists, Wells and Chesterton...
...only are your editorials worth reading but the letters they elicit are most interesting. I was struck by two of these which contrasted Switzerland with Belgium and used the contrast as an argument for our being more prepared for war. It is entirely possible that Belgium, had she been more military, might have frightened off the German attack. But the plain fact is that all the nations that have heavy armamens, except Italy and the United States, are at war and none of the nations of minor military strength, except Servia, Montenegro, and Belgium...
...Merry Wives of Windsor." In verse, too, it is less easy to commend his quest of esoteric effects. The odd meter of "A Lover of Boston" exhibits as tenuous a sense of beauty as his lover's defence of Corey Hill sunsets as a mate for Italian evenings. By contrast in "Bhakata-Yoga" the questionably sensuous imagery veils and almost nullifies the philosophi conception...