Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conrad Aiken's poetry with which the book is chiefly concerned has just this vague, rather exasperating indefiniteness. Mr. Peterson seeks to justify this and the often baffling images invoked by the poet as true to the dim and distorted mirrors of man's mind on which are recorded the images of external objects. One cannot quarrel with the author's competent interpretation of Alken's method, but there is a difference of opinion as to the value of this type compared to the behavioristic mode of writing in which the actions of a character are described and explained from...
...bank balance by $7,000,000. It was on the brink of defaulting on its public debt.* Bankruptcy threatened to close its schools, turn its prisoners out of jail, free its insane. Its air reeked with hidden scandal. Between Governor Bilbo and the Legislature existed a spectacular deadlock to dim the chances of quick political relief. Born in Juniper Grove 53 years ago, a fluent lawyer-politician idolized by Mississippi's swamp folk, Governor Bilbo served his State as Lieutenant Governor (1912-16) and Governor (1916-20). He was elected again in 1928. With a son at West Point...
...Vagabond will go to Emerson this morning at 9 to hear a lecture on Kant. He has always been interested in the man, although his knowledge has been limited to shy, experimental puns on the philosopher's name and a rather dim feeling that Fiechte, Schleiermacher and all the others the Vagabond has heard Babbitt talk about must have followed...
...come to a pretty sorry pass when the success of modern education depends on the availability of parking places. The Vagabond is frankly depressed. But if traffic and the machine age combine to thwart the intellectual, perhaps they can be forced to aid education. The Vagabond,peering into the dim future sees a new Harvard. It has become so thoroughly Oxfordized that the students have "scouts", and television has become the accepted means of education. He sees a room in Lowell House, a students figure reclining on a couch, a henchman hovering over an instrument in the corner, ready...
...observe an actress as it is to see a picture, for the interest naturally settles on Helen Twelvetrees, who not so long ago gained the attention of both public and producers by her very creditable performance in "Her Man." Until then this newly arisen star's light had been dim indeed, but recognition of merit came and she was soon considered one of the significant "finds" of the year...