Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well. The international committee now in Paris is deciding the question. If Los Angeles gets the games, there will be more wailing and parading of French was sufferings than arises whenever the German war debt is mentioned. Yet France is not sure she wants the games, largely from a fear that she won't be able to win them or even make a good showing--and inglorious defeat would be insufferable in Paris. The same feeling is expressed as appeared in the Parisian dailies after the "Battle of the Century" last July: "America may have Dempsey, but remember Frenchmen...
...seed while Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones devotes all his energies to advertising or electrical engineering. The shout goes up--this is an age of specialization; a man must live. Yet there is a perfectly good answer to these objections. The young Chaucers will take care of themselves, never fear; for the rest of us a consciousness that all specialization and no play makes Jack a dull boy will be necessary. There are those who often drop into the Farnsworth room for an hour or two, those who go to the Copley Theatre as well as the movies, those...
...their report, are opposed to anything of a utilitarian nature. They believe that a memorial should exist for its own sake; its primary purpose should be to keep before the minds of Harvard men the sacrifices made by their fellow-students and graduates in the War, and they fear that a dormitory, gymnasium, or auditorium would obscure the ideal for which it was erected. Therefore they conclude that something in the nature of an ornamental monument, a belfry, or a new chapel would be the only suitable memorial...
Such an opinion is quite understandable; in fact it expresses a noble ideal, and since the committee is in an influential position, its words must be heeded. Unfortunately, to our way of thinking, the conception of such a memorial seems to indicate a confusion of relative values. In the fear of putting utilitarian motives uppermost, the committee goes too far to the other extreme, and forgets that however fine abstract memories may be, and however eager the University is to express its gratitude in the most ideal terms, still there is a higher ideal--the humanitarian. To perpetuate the Past...
Indeed no less person than A. J. Raffieg himself, remarks in the course of the play that all criminals betray themselves through fear, and that so long as he does not fear his pursuers, they will never catch him. But though he does not fear, the audience fears mightlly for (not to mention the girl who of course is introduced into the piece in the approved romantic stlye) with all the blind fear of the hunted. And with admirable logic, A. J. is finally betrayed, not through any fear of his but by a "woman acorned". Raffles on the stage...