Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The book proposes the next step in human progress. Mr. Denison realizes, with the late J. B. Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends...
I have lately returned from a journey among our sister Republics. . . . We wish only for the maintenance of their independence. . . . While we have had wars in the western hemisphere yet on the whole the record is in encouraging contrast with other parts of the world. . . . It is impossible, my countrymen...
Daughter Catherine Booth was there hoping for speeches and emotion. But the High Council was grimly silent. For two hours Lawyer William Allen Jowitt argued that General Booth should not be deposed. The High Council listened politely and then deposed him.
"I found I had a situation dominated by thought instead of emotion," he said. "The music would have nothing to say. . . . There was no way I could think my way back into the unsettled emotions."
The Significance. Such, expressed with infinite restraint, is the terrific indictment against an indifferent generation. A girl's lover is killed-she feels no emotion; a country is in revolt, "the best people" pay no attention. Not that they do not love their Ireland: their patriotism flowers in smart...