Word: cores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which cannot be ignored. It is the argument that the classics have now been taught so long that they cannot be dropped. It does not rest upon the respective glories and grandeurs of Athens and Rome. It rests merely upon the fact that Greek and Roman thinking is the core of our culture; that without the literatures of these two tongues we are without an understanding of our traditions; that cut off from our traditions, we are novices where we should be adepts...
...they are spoiled, ruined to the core, every one of them. Ruined by a cloying insatiable, pathological subjectivity. It is ghoulish and does not suggest the human, even the eccentric. And even Mr. Lawrence's ticket takers, and farmers and young country girls, are all of them stark mad, mad in an unpleasant rasping way. All of his characters have un-natural lights in their eyes, and their brains are pounding with agonies of an existence which they do not understand. All of this is cleverly written and may be what Mr. Lawrence is after...
...fail to stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed for reading in history as much s in literature. The actual order of events may be slightly distorted, but the picture painted of the times leaves...
...document which he picked up for a pittance. The author introduced his imagination and into the story wove a complex plot. The author shows a wide knowledge of Italy, but his most remarkable understanding is of the relations between man and woman. Browning was masculine to the core and it was this quality which enabled him to write so well on the subject. He put everything he had into his writing and this included human insight and psychology. But he was not primarily a preacher or psychologist but an artist and it was in this line that he excelled...
...just which of our emotions or ideals this story appeals. The author of "College Life" intended it for an example of what "sand" will do in the way of escaping from an unfortunate predicament. To many who repeat the story, however, it illustrates that "ideal imperturbability" which is the core of "Harvard indifference"; the fickle public has a habit of appropriating a good story for its own use. Whatever text the episode represents, the fact is bat it has an unusually universal appeal...