Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again, there is no denying that the world has been filled with lies and misleading propaganda about Soviet Russia. But can we dismiss the whole body of information and misinformation now at our disposal as an unqualified parcel of lies? In his chapter entitled "The Poison Gas Attack" Professor Ross lists forty nine stories as absolute lies and attempts to refute them by ipse dixit declarations, sarcastic comment, or by demonstrating them to be illogical (surely a risky business). False they may be, in part or in whole, but flat statements unsupported by proff or authority can bear little weight...
...best to appear cultured would dare to express ourselves as frankly as Mr. Lait, no matter how much we really were bored by Die Walküre. Indeed to dismiss all opera with a gesture might really appear, at times, to be going too far. But to the implication that vaudeville is an unappreciated art among our own clever-clevers, it seems safe to assent...
...highest calibre are barred by arbitrary rules. Chicago's president should not necessarily be a Baptist, nor Columbia's necessarily an Episcopalian. Only in small institutions such as Goucher College, does the President of the Board of Trustees resign because the President of the College refuses to dismiss a professor for unorthodox teachings. The public good, and not private beliefs or preferences, should govern the policy of every great university...
...They dismiss parliaments...
...that dramatic critics will spend a thousand words analyzing a bad play and dismiss the best musical comedy with a paragraph ? Is it mere snobbishness and highbrow affectation that makes them assume that no musical show, however good, is worthy of their heavy artillery? One is inclined to think that this is not altogether the case. Most musical shows are produced by men of stereotyped minds and artistic ignorance who follow the same formulae year after year in the same unimaginative way. Its resistance to change and innovation is stronger than that of a Buddhist Llama and its prevailing keynote...