Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these efficient days nobody but an anchorite can escape the statistical hounds. On every trail the researchers are in full cry. Who knows in how many bureaus you may be tabulated and cross-indexed, if only to point a social moral or illustrate an economic trend? Nobody so humble or so proud but some official Boswell has captured him for an exhibit. The inquisitors get you from ambush anyhow, but if you expose yourself directly to the questionnaire volley by applying for something you are riddled, as at Harvard. You are filed, indexed, blue printed, graphed, annotated and footnoted; cultures...
...general, labor has pleasures and entertainments of which it never dreamed before. I never saw a more moral country, and all the stories about an increase in venereal diseases are incorrect...
September 29. William Ernest Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity...
...Vatican suavely disapproved, declaring semi-officially: "...The moral efficacy of the electrocution is not only destroyed but completely reversed...
BLUE VOYAGE-Conrad Aiken- Scribners ($2.50). Whatever the "new" psychology may or may not have done for morals, it has certainly burst the literary levees that used to confine the novel to its streambed. Conrad Aiken, long an escapist poet, is now able to over-flow the way Poet James Joyce did in Ulysses, with a whirling deluge of internal experience flooding in the general direction of a narrative. Less turbulent than Poet Joyce, Poet Aiken produces a flood less bewildering than Ulysses but quite as impressive. The narrative of Blue Voyage is simply that William Demarest, young...