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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Technically the term is correct, of course, but is it a kind term? . . . She may have been only a servant girl, but she was a woman! . . . Please be a little kinder in the future. Don't forget it was a man who gave you your chance to use such a term...
...there is the other side, the side with which the Elizabethans dealt, the spirit exemplified in him who would "take all nature to be his province." We must certainly know the Morphology of Shoe-laces between 1421 and 1423; scholars are perfectly correct in spending years of research on Shelley's use of the word "tig"; the world must have extrapulation, interpolation, annotation, paraphrasion, and prolocution. But also let's have big ideas; great generalities; tentative conclusions for next generations to worry about...
...Architecture is the wise, correct and magnificent play of form under light...
...dead hog for dinner," or I can say "I ate roast pork." In both cases I would be correct. The President could get "scattered cheers," or he could get applause. Both are correct. But "scattered cheers" shows your bias in the matter. In another place, you use the words "My frien-n-nds," as though to deride the President's speech, when "My friends," would do just as well, and carry no sense of a jeer. You will say no such effect is intended, but I am the judge of the effect it produces...
...Better Social Order." To some, this seemed a sour subject to bring up in the presence of the headmaster of a school so closely identified with the existing social order. Fears were set at rest when President Lewis began listing the evils of secondary education: "The use of correct, trenchant and beautiful English among the graduates of our secondary schools is so rare as to attract surprised attention. Manners are poor, the courtesies of an early day are classified as Victorian and are therefore discarded. It is considered smart to appear uncouth. Lawlessness is on the increase. Political indifference...