Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins of language are identification of words with things and the misuse of abstract terms...
...Prescription for Romance," which completes the bill, is mildly amusing, but of necessity suffers from contrast with the main feature. Its theme is very familiar: villain absconds with company's funds; innocent girl shelters him; detective and girl fall in love; all ends happily. Nevertheless, the treatment is light and humorous, and Mischa Aue as a phoney count provides many a ridiculous sequence...
Your reprint of the Yale "News" editorial, Isolation and Peace, was valuable, because it brought out the three main points upon which high-handed Interventionist policies rest. These are, that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, and so if a European war starts we are sure to go in; therefore we might as well enter such a conflict at the earliest opportunity; and finally, that the "people," being the most warlike group in the nation, should not be trusted with the responsibility of deciding whether to fight or not fight...
Supplementary to his main theme of disillusionment are random bits of history, thumbnail sketches of military dictators whom he interviewed briefly, many an anecdote: of a brief but bloody revolution in Quito where the scattered human remains were collected by garbage trucks hurriedly daubed with Red Crosses; of an escaped convict from Devil's Island who murdered his peg-legged fellow fugitive, used the wooden leg to cook him with...
...main criticisms was that "The contralized agrarian program takes money from the middle and poor classes in the United States in proportion as they are poverty stricken. The relief authorities give it back to the very poor. The net sufferers are the middle classes...