Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet Russia," he scoffed, "could never agree with the fundamental aim of the League to consolidate the present status of State borders; and we would never permit the League to compel us to submit to arbitration the vital interests of the Soviet Union, as there cannot exist impartial arbitration between the Soviet economic system and capitalistic society...
...important function as the distribution of information should ever fall into the hands of the Government. It would be still more unfortunate if its control should come under the arbitrary power of any person or group of persons. It is inconceivable that such a situation could be allowed to exist...
...Significance. Shiel is a mad, dazzling fellow, "wildly well writing and riding this English language." He is more romantic than Romance, juggling nations, kings, comets, peasants in soaring obedience to unreined fancy. His characters talk as no man talked, act as no man acted, exist in a blazing phantasmal world where almost anything is almost sure to happen. Lacking a word, he coins one; where History or Science runs counter to his conception, he remakes History and Science. He is sheer imaginative flame run wild like a cosmic prairie fire. You can laugh at him-you cannot deny his vitality...
...detachment in regard to the debate of the Fundamentalists and Modernists (both names are about as appropriate as the average cigar label) which divides most of the Dissenting Sects. Mr. Wim. Jennings Bryan's sad dilemma of "the Rock of Ages and the age of rocks" simply can not exist for the Catholic Churchman. There is no more real conflict between natural science and the Church, so long as each remains properly itself, than between geometry and philosophy. There are, of course, unscientific scientists and priests who take "flyers" outside their province; but that does not effect the true alignments...
...little generosity on the part of the University. Because he has made much of little, he should be given much; because he has proved that his idea can triumph over bodily limitations it deserves a suitable and adequate embodiment. It is doubtless possible for a university to exist without a "47 Workshop," but it would not be possible for Harvard to be Harvard without a wide diversity of intellectual interest, a warm appreciation of leadership and initiative, a hospitality to new enterprises, and an eager desire to promote art and learning in the larger American community. Because the 47 Workshop...