Word: generic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hebrew prophets cornered the Western market long ago, other races, other men have produced scripture too. Such a one is Black Elk, holy medicine man of the Ogalala Sioux. His life story, told to and superbly set down by Poet Neihardt, has the quality of true scripture. More generic than literature, which reflects individual men's spirits, it reflects whatever divine image there may be in a tribe, a race...
...genial perusal of dark pages and the vagaries of his own adventure in America could the author have found the American soul beneath the sectional variations which he defines so accurately. The American heart that is not contented asks, "How?", not "Why?". The why of Fredonia, the generic term for the land of the United States, is lost beyond the last long hills over which the soul of Trist Loner ran its ghostly last. In a hurry to tell the news. That is American, Trist's hurry to tell the news, old news that is new in a young land...
...spite of the qualifying adjective, "crazy." I am afraid most readers would make a generic application of the sentence. This would be unjust both to Southern whites and to the millions of self-respecting, law abiding, industrious Negroes who comprise the major portion of our colored population...
There will be many wearers of the Green off to hotels this vacation. Hotels in Montreal, in New York, in Bermuda, in Boston, in Florida, and in Pinehurst. They will find in many of these centers of American culture and criticism an unvoiced assumption that the generic Dartmouth gentleman is a roguish, rakish, hell-bent-for-affection sort of fellow with all the manly virtues and not a few of the more virile peculation's that go to make up the finished citizen of the world. This axiom means a lot to us. There is a pleasure in it that...