Word: lifelessly
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...Stairs. A melancholy play by Rosso di San Secondo, Italian dramatist, does not impress. Reared on the rueful abstraction that revenge reaps no pleasure for the revenger, it seems lifeless. The stairs of the title ramble upward through a tenement house. The gossip and the touseled details of life finally converge in the room where lives a woman. No prostitute, she turns out to be the deserted wife of the cruel landlord. The cast is adequate...
...loaded so heavily. The yellow giant skidded across the green marsh into the muddy waters of a shallow duck pond, wherein the giant's beak stuck. Its tail completed a semicircle. In its cockpit lay Lieutenant Wooster with his neck broken, Commander Davis with his face crushed-both lifeless in a gloomy pool of water and gasoline. Thoughtfully, they had turned off the ignition, so that the giant did not catch fire. To Noel Davis-Mormon, cowpuncher, high in his class at Annapolis, intrepid minelayer and minesweeper in the North Sea, Harvard law student, with a pretty wife...
...with a ringing denunciation of the former. He has come running to the defence of the autobiographical impulse meanwhile digging his spurs sharply in the fact of "noble objectivity" as he runs. "Classical" is identified with "barbarism" "romantic" with "cultures." And after this trade at which all dead and lifeless classicists must achiever in their tombs he concludes be nightly. "The old, old controversy between classical and romantic objective and subjective is not so much destroyed as transcended. The function of literature is not to multiply the bad examples of old but to help save the world...
...more exceptions low than high and it is the present intention to point out that large courses suffer as much from the studious pre-occupation of section men as the small ones do from the scholarly inclinations of professors. It is, moreover, true that the evil of lifeless section men is the mere deplorable because they officiate in almost all freshman courses. Despite occasional lectures from on high, they tend to typify Harvard pedagogy in the eyes of the newcomers. It is thus that active aversion to learning is surely be gun at the beginning of college life...
...these things, worrying as he pushed the little cart loaded with eels, haddock, cod, halibut, swordfish, Vanzetti spent his mornings . . . weighting-out fish...." The fish peddler worried because a few days before, on a fine cool May morning in the year 1920, a body had been found-smashed lifeless on the pavement in front of a Department of Justice office-the body of another anarchist, a printer. This printer had been arrested for de- portation during the anti-Red hysteria. The man had jumped or been pushed from a 14th floor window. Anarchist Vanzetti, having read the news, joked little...