Word: gloomier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BENDA is one of those writers who view the present state of the world with-alarm. His mildest predictions of future disaster foresee the disappearance of higher civilization from the face of the earth. His gloomier fore-boding envisage a universal war sufficiently perfect to accomplish the destruction of the human race itself. Having arrived at these conclusions he then sets out to discover the forces which make them inevitable...
...Gloomier and Gloomier. In a recent London book called The Coming Renaissance 14 British and two American writers all strike, in differing degrees, a hopeful note. One comments on the approach of church union in America; another on the new interest in education and the rebirth of religious discussion; a third on the interest in upbuilding the health of the human race. To the various writers (two of whom are women, five University professors, three bishops, two canons and two clergymen), these signs indicate another Renaissance age in religion. But to W. R. Inge, " gloomy Dean " of St. Paul...
Chester S. Lord, who was Managing Editor of Charles A. Dana's Sun, has written a book: The Young Man and Journalism. "A gloomier or more pessimistic tract never we saw," say the critics. "Young men who read Mr. Lord's book will take to bricklaying sooner than journalism...