Word: modelied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made to re-create the conditions that existed in California in 1846 when that Mexican territory was annexed to the United States. The plot is concerned with the efforts of an old feudal family to withstand the introduction of Americans and their ways into their set and radically different mode of life. Barthelmess, as the young Mexican of noble birth, turns outlaw as the result of a beating he receives at the hands of a government official, and roams the countryside trying to preserve his ancestral ranch, and indigenous qualities of his people...
...distorted mirrors of man's mind on which are recorded the images of external objects. One cannot quarrel with the author's competent interpretation of Alken's method, but there is a difference of opinion as to the value of this type compared to the behavioristic mode of writing in which the actions of a character are described and explained from without. Subjective writing is very effective for that limited number of individuals who react to external stimuli in the same way that the author or his characters do. However it seems likely that in future ages it will...
...climax was as follows: "Anyone who has witnessed the new invention, the birth of new industry . . . which has so vastly increased the wealth of the world and altered our entire mode of living within the memory of those present, cannot be discouraged about either the immediate or the distant future. The opportunities which have so multiplied in the last generation are only the forerunners of perhaps greater ones, which will come as the result of forces now at work and constantly being discovered...
...such improvement in the quality of journalism must depend on a change in the public's mode of thought. As long as sensationalism sells papers, it will not disappear. Even if the dailies admit that news is what the papers play up, some will continue to seek readers by playing up the most extravagant stories available. The "popular commercial press" is bound to remain commercial...
...Marriage," announced cupid-like Mr. Whiteman in Chicago, "is a middle-class institution. At any rate, it seems to work best for those of the average mode, somewhere between the hodcarrier and the banker...