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...Shaw's rationale, his passionate plea, his drole cajolery, will do much to arouse that will-to-equality, and even more to stimulate women, and their men, toward intelligent consideration of some solution, whether it be socialism, or some other ism...
...they might do as well, as simply. It will annoy them to find that it is possible to be modern as well as coherent. Perhaps, before long, we shall have a school of "Neo Hemingways", a bunch of these sleek fellows who have been the followers of every latest-ism since Dada was young. They will imitate him with diccrete modifications, without his balance and restraint, and probably they will be welcomed, for this, you remember, is America where we can never get too much of a good thing
...Harvard gave him splendid scope for his genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...
Philip Snowden, onetime Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, sar donic cripple, brilliant economist (TIME, April 25) : "They who have proposed this bill are hypocrites, and they are fools who by rowdy ism have led this debate to such a fatuous conclusion. . . . As for general strikes, they are general nonsense because they
...very charming gentleman. Those fortunate enough to have attended either of his courses or his series or public lectures will long remember with what an unusual combination of objectivity and sympathy he dealt with the various representatives of Medieval thought. They were presented not as "ists" perambulating a pet "ism" but as men straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind the mists that swirl about the human mind. Any lingering doubt as to the brightness of the so called "dark ages" in the minds of his hearers was completely, dispelled. As Professor Gilson often points...