Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...house excite in most members of the club, would they own the truth, but very languid interest when at the earliest they arrive at least six weeks after the time of their first bow to the world. True, the greater part of the cargoes of most of these vessels, like those of the shingle boats that children freight for journeys down a brook, may well be jettisoned; but doubtless with many a hapless cargo some things really worth saving go down. A few light, gay, shiny bits do float, and sail gaily down life's brook, sparkling in the sunlight...
...careful, thoughtful essay on "Syndicalism" by G. Seldes follows. Is it really necessary to make a somewhat involved subject less attractive by use of a heavy Latin vocabulary and sentences lacking ease? Surely the subject still needs in a publication like the Monthly persuasive presentation if it is to win readers, and here the style rebuffs rather than attracts...
...Almeh" by J. R. Dos Passos is a sketch set in Cairo. It seems oddly old-fashioned, like some story written in the sixties or seventies, for it is overloaded with unnecessary details and the dialogue is bookish. The start is slow; the emotions of Mansford are not so treated as to rouse the eager sympathy which will give the surprise at the end its full value. Such a sketch falls if it is ungenuinely dramatic and this...
...that is not true. Men are not necessarily sheep. Men do not have to behave like sheep. James Russell Lowell in the later years of his life remarked that he had seen many spirits of the age and some of them never came on, and that is unquestionably true. It is very much in the hands of any man, who chooses to do so, to have a very perceptible influence on the spirit of the age in which he lives and on the destiny of the age which is to follow. There has never been any time in the history...
...return to my text for a moment. In days like those of Saul and Israel, it was almost impossible for a young man without influence, without position, without family, without wealth, without standing in the community, to go forth as a leader. But it is an everyday fact today that any man go forth as a leader, if he has qualities which make...