Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Cardinal Hayes of New York said: 'The events of the Congress itself naturally are lived over again in a way to renew the spiritual fervor of our Catholic people and to appeal once more to our non-Catholic brethren whose sympathetic and reverend interest will never be forgotten...
...first? Is it wise to say that the poet projected a drama on Cotton Mather but nothing came of it (pp. 226-227), when that redoubtable Puritan figures as he does in the New England Tragedies? And, surely, Joel Barlow's Columbiad, even though it may be "mercifully forgotten," need not be pushed further into oblivion by misspelling its title. This, no doubt, is a mere slip in proof-reading. So, of course, but none the less diverting for that, is Mr. Gorman's new promulgation of the classic "howler" that the metre of Hiawatha is "trochaic diameter...
...Hall is both a former ace of the Lafayette Escadrillc and a journalist, and as a result starts two laps behind the field. He never makes them up. He travels from the little Iowa village of his birth to a prison camp in Germany, to forgotten islands of Polynesia, to Iceland and back to Tahiti. His first chapter set in the Iowa village and describing the various soldiers of fortune passing through on the sleepers gives promise, but for the rest Hall is too self-conscious, inadequate, and careless...
...book in toto, even including some doggerel verse--verse undoubtedly as fine as was ever written by any Iowa-born American in the French Air Service. But it is not literature, not until the next-to-last chaper. In these forty pages Mr. Hall describes the fate of "The Forgotten One," an Englishman who chose almost absolute solitude on a tiny island as the goal of life. For some years he was happy, but of a sudden his evesight failed; madness followed. Mr. Hall reaches here his highest level...
...ambition of college students to be relieved from compulsion to go to chapel has lately been realized at Yale, and lately thwarted at Williams. But at Harvard the ambition, and the change of the chapel service from the compulsory to the voluntary system, is and old and all but forgotten story. Harvard has had voluntary chapel for forty years. And, naturally serves as the Awful Example...