Word: herd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the Hobgoblins future men will look. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ahles herd-li-ka) said so at Philadelphia last week. He is Curator of the Division of Physical Anthropology of the U. S. Museum of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C. He derived his picture, conjured the Hobgoblins, from his knowledge of human evolution and environment...
Self-conscious collegiatism has reached the stage where it must be ignored rather than studied. At its best, it implies a uniform lack of originality. At its worst, it means the subservience of the individual to mass taste. The situation is analogous to the stampede of a herd of rattle-brained cattle. The difficulty arises in that the taste is questionable if not distinctly bad. This in turn results from a self-conscious disregard of any authoritative standard. The collegiate person cares little for the opinion or feelings of others. In the last analysis collegiatism is the result...
...they rise at 3 o'clock for lauds, and at 5 o'clock go each to his post: some to herd swine, some to cultivate the fields, some to clerks' desks. Each day has periods for prayer and meditation. To prior and sub-priors they owe utter obedience...
...composers have yet to make a name for any great profundity. That the herd of them is, however, swift, timely, can scarcely be disputed. News songs now figure prominently in Tin Pan Alley. The most recent tells of the sinking of the Vestris...
...give the inarticulate herd Vocabularies wide and weird...