Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with no little misgiving that I write this letter; misgiving born partly from fear of its being misunderstood; partly of the presumptuousness of its contents. But it is because I sincerely feel that I am expressing the inarticulate opinion of a great portion of the undergraduate body that I assume the responsibility which this communication places upon...
...arranged make balanced colour compositions that gladden the eye but never attack the intellect or the emotions. Klee's refuge is in dreams. Like the surrealists, he portrays vague images conjured up from the subconscious and paints them with a tongue-in-the-cheek seriousness that has been completely misunderstood by his lugubrious colleagues in Paris. Nolde, like the sculptor Lehmbruck, is German in his intensity and paints with an inner fire that is typical of the expressionistic movement in Germany...
...cannot in brief space refute the various contentions given. It is sufficient to point out that the type of individualism of each unit expected has been misunderstood. We do not look for, and we have not got distinctive educational marks of variation, nor have we the emblems and external paraphernalia that the more imaginative of the backers may have desired. But the choice of Freshmen shows that careful observers can and do see the good and bad points of the several units. No clouded eye, is needed to see that the Lowell music library has already won a reputation...
Modern poetry, like experimental science, is always precocious to its day. Even William Wordsworth was once a misunderstood modern, a reprehensible revolutionary. Edwin Arlington Robinson, who last week published his eighth quiet narrative poem, was never considered a blasphemer of the literary gods, but once he was more modern than he is today. Now distinctly a member of the old guard, thrice crowned with the perishable bays of the Pulitzer Prize (1922, 1925, 1927). Robinson is by long odds the most respected living U. S. poet. In his 65th year this New England Browning still turns out a lengthy blank...
...Jimmy" Doolittle urged that at least the Army Air Corps should be removed from control of the General Staff. To this a majority of the committee retorted: "The committee is not greatly impressed with the validity of the several imputations against the General Staff. Control is always repressive when misunderstood or inimical to personal interests...