Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last war brought about a number of changes, for in that period India took a long stride towards becoming an industrial nation, moving from a position as the twentieth industrial country in the world to the eighth largest, and this industrial change brought with it, as well as the changes in the social status, a new desire on the part of the people of India for political freedom so that they might control their own destinies...
...during the past century with problems absolutely new to it, and since 1911 has been trying to do something which it never tried to do before. The nationalist movement is a broader thing than the Nationalist Party, the Nationalist Government, or the Nationalist Army; the Nationalist movement is a nation-wide, though not yet nation-deep awakening; it is a movement away from the old and toward something new, toward hope, toward light, in politics, in economics, in social and religious activities, in the realm of arts and letters, and in the field of physical sciences...
...That nation, whose intelligent and healthy inhabitants intermarry to produce abundant children, will be a better nation. Thus, the essence of eugenics...
...influence of the universities on modern literature--that is the subject of a trenchant and suggestive article in the current Nation. The immediate source for the topic was the Yale Alumni Weekly's recent plea for "honest criticism" from faculty members, that being, according to the Weekly, "the only cure" for the innumerable "sloppy and maudlin" books foisted annually on the public. The Nation agrees but points out that even at Yale faculty members was prolix with superlatives and too often lose touch with the active world of letters. Time was, recalls the magazine, when a professor of English...
...frequent concessions to that infallibility. Because one's judgement is respected by thousands is no reason for one to hall each worthy book as a new masterpiece--even though the foundation of one's criticism be admittedly purely personal and individual. Professor Phelps is undoubtedly the target for the Nation's rebuke, and it must be admitted that Professor Phelps has given sufficient cause on certain occasions. His penchant for superlatives has undermined his readers' faith in his often valuable criticism. He is not alone, however, John Erskine might well cry mea culpa to the Nation's charges...