Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial columns of the Boston Transcript should be sufficient to familiarize any reader with such characteristics of that paper as political prejudice or smug contempt for new and radical ideas. No one is surprised to see Transcript editors acclaim as inspired every word which issues from a Republican month, dismiss with a shrug the work of advanced political thinkers, or threaten the country with imminent ruin from communist machinations. But complete as the conservative and reactionary attitude of the Transcript may usually be, it is still able on occasion to surprise the most constant of its readers...
...father held, and I still hold with the great English moralist Acton that "happily for society" we may dismiss the supposition that women have sexual feelings as "a vile aspersion...
...year, with its full quota of prescribed courses, is rather a waste anyway and is not deserving of serious attention. The advisers, consequently, explain as briefly as possible the methods of distribution and concentration, fill up the freshman's cards with all the elementary courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction of a job well done. I recall that the gentleman to whom I was intrusted ushered me into his room in an impressively efficient manner, and abruptly asked me what I was interested in. Having a vague notion that I liked Shaw and Galsworthy...
...couldn't resist the temptation to try to slam the Jews. You mention a list of Jewish composers among them Ravel, Mendelssohn, Rubinstein, Saint-Saens, and Bloch. Very fine and good. But you clever editors must have your say. A little note does the trick! So you lightly dismiss the Jewish composers with "But Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Tschaikowsky, etc., etc., vere Gentiles." Your entire attitude is nothing short of insulting to the intelligence of your readers. It is 100% befitting vacuocaputs. Do you think for a moment you can get away with that "etc., etc.,"? Must you confess...
...than the second. The chapters which take the world up to the dawn historic civilization are written convincingly, with graphic power. There is no diminution of strength later, but the mass of fact and conflicting forces which makes up modern history does not lend itself to sketchy treatment. To dismiss the Renaissance and the Reformation in sixty pages is not easy, but with his evolutionary theme supplying the background the author handles the task without smacking too much of the encyclopedia. For study, the book is not adequate; for entertainment and instructive reading, it is as good of its kind...