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...keeping her name and address on file. The time may come when those with effective prayer-negation power will be sought again for their healing help." How does one go about praying negatively? One experimenter resorted to calling her seedlings Communists. "To her that is an epithet of disdain, scorn and active dislike. Those poor seeds seemed to twist and writhe under the negative power showered on them...
Kenneth Reckford, the director, has decked the production out with an enormous amount of comical business, including a hilarious if anachronistic blackboard lesson, and the attribution of an obscene epithet to various members of the audience. Commendable performances in smaller roles are turned in by Martin Kligerman, Andrew Hamilton, Frank Carden, Jeremiah Brady, and others...
...than he is to avoid being wrong, whose desire for truth subserves his dread of being thought foolish. In his efforts to elude being caught in a ridiculous posture, he avoids positive commitment if possible. Religous zeal and patriotism are examples of attitudes missing or rare at Harvard, the epithet "pious" provokes dension, and the term "all-American" would only be used in a perjorative sense...
...scorpion-tossing twins of Jazz Age journalism. On Nathan's Smart Set (1914-23), Mencken's old American Mercury (1924-33), and the short-lived American Spectator (1932-35), the slim, elegant Nathan and hulking, tousled Mencken battered at boneheads and "dingdoodles" (Nathan's pet epithet for self-satisfied know-nothings). When Mencken died two years ago, his meat ax seemed as anachronistic as a halberd. But Critic Nathan-though the day had passed when he could kill a play with a quip-remained an acute and acidulous observer of the theater whose only visible sign...
...like to participate actively in the Democratic Party do not do so because they are afraid to. In some areas the young man in a profession or in business is ostracized if he becomes or remains a Democrat. He is looked on as a traitor to his class. This epithet was applied to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and I have heard this foolishness applied...