Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition of African and Oceanic Art which the Fogg Museum presents through the cooperation of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, brings an artistic experience far deeper than the mere sight of the exotic by-products of savagery. It presents a manifestation of art which can materially richen our appreciation of all forms of art and our understanding of the varieties of human adaptation to the physical and spiritual problems of existence...
...Colonel. For years newspaper feature-writers have refrained from writing Edward Riley Bradley's biography, partly because the Colonel is notoriously secretive about his past, but chiefly because the mere mention of his occupation amounts to libel in most states. Colonel Bradley is a gambler and has been for some 50 of his 75 years. Colonel Bradley himself stilled apprehensive editors' anxieties at the Senate hearing last month when he frankly admitted that his business was that of a "speculator, raiser of race horses and gambler." "I'd gamble on anything," he added...
Periods of emergency, such as confront Doumergue, have vouchsafed a few Cabinets two, or once, three years. But the average Cabinet is a mere coalition, whose chief preoccupation is not to make legislative history, to drive through well-formulated policies, but to keep alive, by ingenious jockeying, for perhaps as long as nine months. The Premier has but a shadow of Roosevelt's or the Prime Minister's influence his ministers are his "personal rivals of yesterday and tomorrow," only waiting until a new alignment of the Deputies will give one of them his own nine months' trick...
...sold their birthright of dreams for a mess of revolutionary economics. Left-wing critics retort that while the nightmare of the capitalist system persists, no young writer worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty. Though diehard right-wingers will call it propaganda, most readers will find it troubling, critics of all stripes will pronounce it a first-rate novel...
...conceivable, moreover, that wars might be fought for the preservation of certain ideals over others. A war between eastern and western civilizations might very easily be of this nature. Many men when they enlisted in the last war did so, not for the sake of adventure or because of mere coercion, but because they believed they were fighting for the preservation of certain fundamental concepts they valued. In all struggles between nations an attempt is made to justify the war in the eyes of those serving in the fighting ranks by appealing to the righteousness of one cause over another...