Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nights of the run, a brilliantly dressed young husband and wife were heard to remark on leaving that the evening was an insult. Probably it is a trifle too true for their correct intelligence. Yet in deference to just such correct intelligence the Theatre Guild expurgated the play the evil-minded?and still immensely moving to the thoughtful...
...editors of the New Republic are interested in remedying a situation admittedly evil, rather than, as we suspect, in merely talking about it, they will float their bond issues and subscribe their dollars for the exploitation of a professional, and not a college, football team...
...universities must not merely encourage each other to avoid the dangers of excess and professionalism. They are examples for all the preparatory schools. What we make of collegiate athletics becomes the ideal for school athletics, where our mistakes and our sins are copied, and where their evil consequences are multiplied by the enthusiasm of imitation...
...engaged as a tutor and plays with his pupils. "Both," it is submitted, "are engaged primarily for their athletic ability." That is common sense, although it may disturb sticklers for the old-fashioned code of amateurism. "We must be chary," says the committee, "of forbidding acts when the evil lies only in their abuse or only in the practical difficulty of discrimination." At the same time, there must be regulations to govern amateur standing, and the mistake must not be made of opening the door to evasions. New York Times...
...current tendency in the criticism of contemporary and historical characters is to give them credit for their good traits as well as to censure them for their evil ones. Rowing hard against this modern critical stream, however, comes "The Senate and the League of Nations," written by the late Henry Cabot Lodge. Instead of discussing the Senate and the League of Nations from various angles and then building up proof to support the conclusions of the author, as one might expect in this enlightened age, the book devotes very little space to specific issues, and abounds in vituperative generalities directed...