Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secession movement is not anti-Fascist nor anti-Mussolini. It is just plain antipathy to the Nationalist Party element which was absorbed into Fascismo. The Neapolitans want a thoroughbred Fascista Party and will not fall in line with the northern organizations in effecting the coalition. Captain Padovani himself said: " It is absolutely untrue that either myself or other Fascisti in this (Naples) district are disaffected with the Government. My admiration for Premier Mussolini and my devotion to the Fascista movement are unchanged and untouched by personal differences about Greco, which have arisen because he is imbued with the old ideas...
...There are the expected notices of addresses for applications for permission to produce, and the bibliographies of books about, and plays of the "Little Theatre". For the reader, on the other hand, who would take up the book as a matter of enjoyable reading only, there are two important elements lacking. To begin with Mr. Shay's "Foreword" is inconsequential, where it could have been a brief survey of the "Little Theatre" movement in America, with special mention of the different groups which gave first production to a number of the plays included in the collection. The other element...
What is his quality? What is this element of greatness? To meet Mr. Broun is to understand, partly at least, his gift as a writer. Large, shambling, often ill at ease, kindly, yet with that curious detachment which marks those who are much absorbed in their own thought, he invariably impresses one by his childlike eagerness. This is the fundamental characteristic of a great reporter, I judge. The world, as it appears to him each morning, is a new world. Events come to him as great God-given phenomena at which he gazes not with the eyes of a visionary...
...chief problem", declares the report in discussing the disproportionate emphasis on athletics and football in particular, "is one of relative values; and it must be met, in our opinion, by following the principle that athletics is an element in the education of the individual to be given its due place but no more than that; the object being the all-round development -- intellectual, physical, and moral--of the student." Only one criticism of this is possible--the idea of athletics as a means rather than an end has become so fixed in all intelligent discussion of the problem at Harvard...
...significant section the committee declares that the chief problem in athletics "is one of relative values; and it must be met, in our opinion, by following the principle that athletics is an element in the education of the individual to be given its due place but no more than that." The committee also comments favorably on the various agreements eliminating "everything that tends in the direction of professionalism," and praises the high standard of sportsmanship in modern athletics at Harvard...