Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second Trans-Siberian Railway north of Lake Baikal. Main fighting last week was near Lake Bor, which Japanese say is 18 miles inside the Manchu Empire and irate Mongols consider theirs. An ancient Buddhist temple with thick walls impressed commanders on both sides as worth fighting for-an ideal stronghold for the winner. As rifles crackled, the Japanese officers joyfully saw two bombing planes approaching, assumed them to be Japanese, the only kind ever seen in those parts. Instead, the thundering birds were Mongols with the Hammer & Sickle of Communism on their wings. They laid big eggs of Death among...
...ideal life and the best opportunity for an American lawyer to realize that kind of life is in a small city of this size...
Leaving the scholastic standard alone, the ideal for the future must be to get at the large, average group, somehow or other to make them interested and hard-working in their fields. For this all that is suggested in Dean Hanford's report comes from Professor Munn's special committee of advisers,-that students on probation should be released from most of their tutorial work, in order that they may concentrate on doing better on their courses. This is no solution at all, merely a confession of failure...
...Kipling will probably not grasp the significance of the work of Conrad. The essay on Conrad, in the reviewer's opinion, is inadequate and misleading. Like the other essays it has a neatly phrased central thesis pigeon-holing its subject. Conrad, though Polish, "expressed a certain Anglo-Saxon ideal better, perhaps, than any other man of letters." He taught "a stoic philosophy of life, that of the British man of action." This generalization is so incomplete as to be seriously misleading. Captain MacWhirr may be stoical but he scarcely represents an Anglo-Saxon ideal. And from the expostulations of Babalatchi...
...virtue of this extremely vivid impression of his character that Santayana shows his real insight. It would have been easy to draw a caricature of Oliver--not one novelist in a thousand could have resisted the temptation. But Santayana, despite his innate antipathy to the Puritan ideal, draws "The Last Puritan's" character fairly...