Word: loree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several other microscopic principalities which have lately given up their independence, it will not be many years until the famous casino is nothing more than a grand old memory, and until the chants of the crouplers are embalmed in the of the cropiers are embalmed in the folk lore of the countryside...
...Romulus and Remus fable, invented, or at least encouraged by latter-day Roman rulers, must have had an effect in developing the Roman superiority complex, which like most such complexes, was based on a feeling of uniqueness or "differentness". The growth of national legends and national folk-lore came before the awakening of national consciousness or patriotism in Europe; the results of ingeniously exploited "folk-lore", which may or may not have originated with the folk, can be clearly traced in many instances...
...America, the fairy tale industry lacks material with which to work, although George Washington and his clever retort with reference to falsehoods furnishes a not unsuitable starting point. The folk-lore of parent countries has not as yet been acclimated. But Professor William Lyon Phelps reputed reaction to "Peter Pan" (See Donald Ogden Stewart) illustrates plainly the appeal which these fables retain even for such highly intelligent subjects, Their magnetic, vitalizing influence on the masses cannot be overestimated...
...idol-smashers who rejoice in pointing out that Daniel Webster was expelled form Exeter have apparently assumed that the great American public usually demands from its statesmen an intimate knowledge of past and present lore. But that such an analysis is hasty and superficial is proved rather conclusively by the history of presidential elections, in which coonskin cap, log cabin, and campaign song, to say nothing of the cider barrel, have easily overshadowed in importance the sonorous orations of far-sighted politicians...
When we speak here of informative education, we are not thinking of that special training which fits the student for some particular job; rather, we are assuming that the educated man should possess, over and above the lore of his calling, a general acquaintance with the history of mankind, with the scientific view of the universe, with the best in world-literature and the other arts, and with the major concepts of philosophy; and we submit that no youth left free to wander through the college catalogue is likely to compass the fundamentals in this broad field of knowledge. Indeed...