Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Language and Literature Distinct...
...Literature, as compared with those who aim at a more detailed or scholarly knowledge, but such a view misses the real significance of the change. Intentionally or otherwise, the new plan is a recognition and enunciation of the principle that Language as Language and Language as Literature are two distinct things, that Philology and Linguistics are a specialized field, calling for a special aptitude, and that a real appreciation and knowledge of Literature, as Literature, can exist without any profound knowledge of that field...
...taking their morning constitutional in the aisles of the examination room ought to be reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative, and are even inclined on occasion to feel a distinct sensation of guilt. No doubt these apostles of individual meditation have the friendliest of intentions. But they forget that even a smile under some circumstances may drive a man to madness and that their innocent promenade could possibly have any associations with water dripping with fatal regularity from an Inquisition tank...
...either team received a major penalty. There have been one or two penalties for unnecessary roughness, some for holding and other minor infringements, all of which were quite evenly distributed, but there has been no action by any referee to indicate that Princeton-Harvard games are in any way distinct from other games on the Harvard schedule in cleanness of play. This silent record is conclusive. Against it, no matter how honest they are, flimsy lists of incidents like Hubbard's; based on circumstantial and partial evidence, cannot stand up. It is easy to refute them...
...Jacob Wassermann there can be seen a great master in the very process of development. Each new book discovers him with a firmer grasp of the technique of his craft, with clearer vision of moral truth. Paradoxically, although it is not as great a book, "Wedlock" is a distinct improvement upon the "World's Illusion...