Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather a wholly passive form of amusement, an anaesthetic to the intellect. It is the habitual attendance at the moving picture halls night after night, week after week, throughout the year. It is certainly a waste of time, a sapping of your mental energies and turning them wholly aside from the sources of intellectual pleasures which have lasting and satisfying value...
None of these conditions is inevitable. To be bored--or to assume boredom--is merely putting an insult upon your own intelligence in picking your company; the other two are merely the result of inexcusable mental laziness...
...being silent is not so great, after all. Certainly there is not much of a fine art in doing what the veriest hod-carrier could do. Yet sometimes, while reading Addison, or Lamb, or Carlyle or Coleridge--or Holmes, there comes the wish that all this knowledge and mental stimulation that is being showered upon Cambridge with virtually every lecture hour could be used with enjoyable results outside of class-rooms and the covers of blue-books. Then really could he who prices himself on his "cleverness" stand or fall on solid merit; and he who is by nature reserved...
...somehow these periodic matches for the international heavyweight championship apear to fall outside the confines of true sport. There is in them no trace of spiritual or mental quality. Brute force wins the battle...
While magazines of this character are excellent; they cannot help but be merely sporadic engagements with the dead weight of splendid mental isolation. It needs something more than journals which reach but a comparative few to awaken the greater mass of the people to a consciousness of what is going on beneath the surface in world affairs today. A more than merely cursory glance at any newspaper within the last two weeks would have revealed the following facts...