Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming a nation of specialists, each man an authority in his own little corner, and ignorant of the relations of life as a whole. We assume that for every subject there is a specialist, and that specialists can make up life. But social life consists, not only of specialization, but also of coordination. Only to the extent that all these functions work together with mutual understanding and with unity of purpose, can there be stability or effectiveness in human relations...
...avalanche of honors is sweeping everything before it. Old favorites among the authors, finding their thrones tottering, protest against the injustice of a system which makes it possible for an unknown at one step to reach popular fame. Young "also-rans form street-corner indignation meetings against the injustice of all plebiscites and all judges. Nevertheless authors, a old and young, unite in striving to out-elbow each other in the shuffle for decorated popularity...
...street-corner statesman, who possibly ranks with the arm-chair philosopher as the supreme function-head of knowledge in all affairs of this earth, is raising his voice with increasing vociferousness to demand, "Why doesn't the Government take over the coal mines?" The fifth week of the coal strike has not pinched him personally, but it seems to him that the whole thing could be adjusted satisfactorily for everybody by having Uncle Sam just take hold and operate the mines. Thus easily dismissed, the coal strike shrinks away to a back place...
Some critics suggest that the Revolutionary Forces are only corner loafers, quite satisfied with things as they are, who refuse to listen to De Valera or Griffith or any one else. Not that De Valera seems much inclined to stop them. His statements to a correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" are just the opposite. "If the army could save the nation from the calamities bound to follow the acceptance of the treaty I think it justifiable for them to use their strength to that end." Indeed as a last resort "the army may prevent elections which are only the blinds...
...design of "English A" is to teach the student to recognize an idea when he meets it face to face or glimpses it out of the corner of his eye; in its setting and perspective; to gather and organize the material available for its understanding and support, and to present it with intelligence and surety of touch for the convincing of his fellowmen. It lays out the blank form, as it were, which the student will fill out as he goes along and with increasing understanding of scope and inter-relationship delves into the vast subjects of which the course...