Word: humanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library. The constitution of the committee, which is representative of the Faculty, the Tutors, and the Undergraduates, ensures a catholicity of taste, and the aim of the committee has always been to meet the needs of the present generation of students, as well as to assemble, as far as human fallibility permits, books of permanent literary value. There are few small libraries that can offer a better representation of every form of contemporary literary activity. It is a pity that the Union Library is not more widely known and used. L. Denis Peterkin...
...fingers are still pointed. People still ask to be told the sense of what they like to call Modigliani's "daubs." And they have been answered variously. Recently an absurd attempt was made to apply the yardstick to Modigliani, to prove that he did not distort human anatomy.* Others admit the distortion but defend it by saying that the Egyptians distorted, as did El Greco, the Italian primitives. The merits of Modigliani, they add, are many: his color is finely schematic; his line is sensitive and delineates the sitter's character with wit and insight; his best canvases...
...opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger was young, his debut was an ordeal. But stern fellows like Oscar Thompson of the Evening Post and Richard L. Stokes of the Evening World wasted no words. For Critic Thompson it was "the most ragged and perfunctory Meister...
...present agitation for European confederation on a great scale is subject to two inherent and stubborn difficulties. The first is the Asiatic complex. Anything approaching world confederation must take account of the two enormous aggregations of population in India and China, which together include about half the human race. No world union is possible so long as this vast population might out-vote the rest of the globe. The second difficulty is that, if the majestic idea of a vast federation is actually carried out in Europe, two of the most important units must he omitted. The first of them...
...that its first selections would be almost wholly of interest to the scholar rather than the student. The former hardly needs a guide. But with so large a proportion of the finest modern authors using the drama and the novel as a medium, a little emphasis on the more human side of current literature would be of greater benefit to the vast majority of Harvard men than the scheme which the committee has evolved...