Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horton is the master of simplicity, credulity, and timidness in all his parts but his combination of the trio in "His Night Out" seems to surpass many of his previous efforts. As a pill-eating hypochondriac who buys medicine for a chain of drug stores, Homer is the meekest soul imaginable. But this same meekness and utterly unsophisticated manner makes him one of the most hilarious when he undergoes a third degree and thinks he is playing "Twenty Questions" with the police force...
...Munroe is right in accusing us of recommending the transformation of the Tutorial System into a "pedagogical nursery" with every tutor a "task-master", then our whole case falls to the ground. For the whole idea was to allow those within the System the greatest possible freedom in their work, and no discipline save self-discipline...
...tutor, of course, or a tutor who did not understand his duties, might use his power as a threat, make himself a "task-master", and make the system for his tutees "a sort of pedagogical nursery." But there is no reason to suppose this would happen, any more than it happens now with the not insignificant power of tutors in borderline cases...
...great moment. It was the beginning of a new era. . . . This world in its crisis called for volunteers, for men of faith in life, of patience in service, of charity and of insight. I responded to the call however I could. I volunteered to give myself to my Master-the cause of humane and brave living. I studied. I loved. I labored, unsparingly and hopefully, to be worthy of my generation...
...cigarets, was always late because he tried to do too much. Celibate by inclination and experience, he had a poor stomach but liked a good glass of wine. He was no Buchmanite. "What adult could accept as real and true that fairy-tale world in which their Dutch baronesses, Master of Fox Hounds and formerly intemperate butlers all walked laughing and prattling, the children of light, and the children of the day?" He had dozens of friends, who took up too much of his time with their needs and troubles-most of which were decidedly not religious...