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...fascinating newsworthiness of Carol II of Rumania. Now there is a man who gives the 20th-century meaning to the Epicureans of old time. Invested with the "divine right" to amuse himself and TIME'S readers, he has supplanted completely ex-Mayor Jimmie Walker as a carefree individualist deluxe in my heart of hearts. Others may worship their sedately virtuous Victorias. I'll partake of large hunks of Carol-at a safe distance...
...dear Mr. President: .... Josiah Royce was an idealist and an individualist, opposed in every word and thought to nearly everything for which your Administration has stood. I have felt that he would want a reply made, and have hoped some one far more learned and qualified might undertake the task which I reluctantly approach for want of one more fitted for it. The larger part of your quotation brings to mind his extemporaneous Faneuil Hall mass meeting speech in Boston, following the sinking of the Lusitania, when, though a feeble old man always a hater of war, he held...
...worth of life as a whole, the simple undivided rights of life, the rights of instinct, the rights of emotion. . . . This was the way in which he renovated life, and effected a spiritual revolution which no mere man of letters has ever effected. ... He is the supreme individualist, and yet his doctrines furnish the foundations for socialism, even in its oppressive forms. He is the champion of the rights of passion, and yet he was the leader in a movement ... of return to domesticity and the felicities of family life." Rousseau was the first great teacher to see the beauty...
...bald eagle is handsome, majestic, tremendously powerful. An individualist, it is rarely seen in the company of more than one of its kind. These attributes make U. S. citizens unversed in Nature proud to acknowledge the bald eagle as their national bird and emblem. Shocking to patriots are the facts that their bird is a bully, thief, coward, eater of carrion. It is so lazy that rather than hunt its own food it prefers to steal the prey of smaller birds. Better yet it likes to avoid all effort by finding its meal rotting in the sun. When Benjamin Franklin...
Nearing in a non-conformist and an individualist, yet an individualist who believes in collectivism and collective economy. He has been active in movements for women's rights, higher wage rates, and the prevention of child labor...