Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That there is little or no possibility of the enactment of the necessary legislation in the General Court and that the whole matter will die a natural death following the elections; that the Plan E form of government has received a sever blow which has greatly reduced its chances for passage; that the action is constitutionaly possible but from a practical viewpoint impossible; and that Harvard, while making no official comment, regards the whole affair as unfortunate publicity but little more...
...Natural Death...
...into the rose of Humanism, now the purple of Classicism rising to the emerald of Idealism only to deepen into the ebon hue of Realism; then all the shadows intermingle to tremble back and forth across the mind of man, to influence man's living, to influence, perhaps his death...
...funny, or sometimes as frightening," to the tragic day when he cried in her presence. Sarah had not known that men knew how to cry. She learned other things faster-economics by going hungry, the ways of boys from confidences of schoolmates. Before her father's death she learned her biggest lesson: "When you were a little child you thought your parents could do anything and knew everything. It was when you were growing up that you began to see them as people like other people, more kind, more tender, but not more wise, not always more capable...
...advising the reader to follow his own reason, draw his own conclusions. An honest reader, if he believes that Shakespeare is junk, and can say why, does the cause of great literature less harm than the snobbish or timid who pretend to like writers who really bore them to death...