Word: craze
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there is nothing beyond the usual legerdemain of the short story; but Robert H. Chambers has achieved a more difficult feat. His "Nigger of No Account" is well no the way which leads to literature, because the author has sympathized with his hero. I am arraid that in the craze for technique the necessity of sympathetic understanding is too often forgotten; the story goes with a click, like a child's toy, but soon wears out and is throw away...
Undergraduate publications are becoming the craze. For now the thrilling news comes to our ears that there is to be a new college daily. The Harvard Magazine has come out with its second platform; the first for increased salaries for instructors, and the second a "new daily to fight the Crime." Yet we are unable to ascertain whether the Harvard Magazine wishes to combat the CRIMSON, or whether it has merely been induced to espouse this new cause of the unknown proposers of the Harvard Daily. The complaints against the CRIMSON, undoubtedly supplied by the threatening journalists, have been enumerated...
...that in the South before the war. Urging the avoidance of too much work, Mr. Smith pointed out the advantages of a less hurried life, and the spending of time and money in pursuits that make life worth living. He said that the curse of our generation is the craze for money...
...present craze for "defences," both of men and of Dreadnaughts, can end only by the gradual realization that in this twentieth century they are unnecessary, dangerous, and wholly out of keeping with our boasted civilization. This realization will be brought by processes of enlightenment and education, and it is in just such processes that our colleges, if they are to live up to the ideals of their founders, should take a leading part. They should make every effort to lift the nations of the world out of the ever deeper rut of militarism, onto the broad highway of international...
...conservative reputation. The Monthly is still conservative in appearance; no artist's model smirks on the cover; but the contents of the excellent November number show here and there ravages of the bacilli that beset the ten-cent magazines, Mr. Petersen, for instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like a New England barnyard after an April shower." This sentence is more...