Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS is a skeptic age--and such periods have never been conducive to poetry, at least of an epic scale. One can readily see how mediocre verse fits in with the skeptic's view of things--it gives him cause to crab at the age's low level--and how their mutual dependency makes them thrive under such consoling companionship. At the same time, but perhaps not so patently, one may see how great poetry must be irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought...
...this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone questions the ethical importance of the modern novel, the least any reader can say is that Mr. Washburn displays a diabolical clever less in the thin veneer of coarseness he spreads over his famous plot...
...alarm is sounding and all who can see further ahead than tomorrow (I believe nobody who cannot see at least fifty years ahead has a right to govern a nation) are worried. . . . The whole of urban Italy shows a birth deficit. Not only is there not equilibrium, but deaths exceed the births. We have reached a tragic phase of the phenomenon. The cradles of our cities are empty and the cemeteries growing...
...reason was given for the vacancy in the chair this year. The purpose of Mr. Stillman's endowment was to bring to the University, men prominent in the field of poetry, who are expected to give at least six public lectures, which are published in book form later...
Party clubs at Harvard have a permanent place, not a mere camp site. Information in regard to absentee voting, now being collected by at least one of the clubs, could be kept at all times accessible. Undergraduates would then find it easy to take at least a voting interest in their local politics and to familiarize themselves through gubernatorial campaigns with the issues later reflected in national elections. An active executive committee, even without a large enrolled membership, could inaugurate such other services to the student voter as would suffice to keep his interest and command his respect...