Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such liberalism as this, in college or out, it is only necessary to emphasize the need of mental balance. Liberalism, Samson-like, in destroying the "shams" of the old conservatism is now destroying itself...
...crowd all the rest out of the market. There must be well-grounded appreciation, and some effort to meet the author half-way, before anything lasting can be accomplished. St. John Ervine's suggested moratorium of the drama is significant. Literature cannot exist as a series of pre-digested mental pellets...
...caste of "learned professions"; for the polishing off of an intellectual or social aristocracy or cult of "leaders" in the body social; for fitting oneself to cut a larger figure in terms of money-making, social standing, or what not; for the shelter and treatment of physical, mental and moral "lame ducks"-a kind of sanatorium for boys who are too much for busy or incompetent parents; for fun, and the enjoyment of an exceedingly pleasant status under carefree conditions-participation in activities, making desirable friendships and gaining general prestige; and, finally, for the normal rounding-out of the formal...
...trick at all to imitate a writer's style, especially if there are habitual outstanding excentricities of phrase and mental twist. The real parodist gets inside of his victim's mind, and compels him, not only in his own phrase and vocabulary but in his own kind of mental operation, to make fun of himself. Perhaps the beet example of this deadly skill in modern literature is that of Charles Stuart Calverly, that most brilliant of Victorian pranksters, who fairly reincarnated the very personality of his victims, An able citizen he, by the way, and of university fame; he still...
...mention personal experience, I was thrown into contact with the journalists of Cambridge and with the future politicians whose forum is the Union, and with such rapidity that the processes of mental adjustment became almost painful. Any American who goes to England now for a year will necessarily learn much about his own country through being obliged to defend many of her actions...