Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very unsatanic friend, who nevertheless resembled Job's tempter in that he had done much going to and fro upon the earth, once described to me an extraordinary scene witnessed while he was sojourning in a distant wilderness. A hungry native, coming by chance upon a bowl of plantains or beetle larvae or some such delicacy, had thanked his tutelar deity for the good fortune and had dined with gusto. But his gastronomic joy was short-lived. A few hours later, a horror stricken fellow tribesman informed him that he had violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish...
...tantalizing stimulus for any sensitive observer, be he yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...
...novel dealing with the eternal triangle--in this case a man and two women--can be called entirely original in plot. There are, nevertheless, certain qualities in "The Countess" which compensate for lack of fresh material. In the first place there is the Countess herself, Madame de Lamouderie, who bears the distinction of being the most despicable character in the story and also the most interesting. In contrast to the other people, all of whom are hell bent for self sacrifice, she is delightful--which is probably what Mrs. de Selincourt intended her to be, thus allowing gentility to defeat...
...attack, it is necessary that his characters should be vivid and distinct, their personalities clearly differentiated. Unfortunately they are not. It is, of course, exceedingly difficult to describe two people, both violently in love with each other, and, without describing anything else about them, make them distinct; it is nevertheless a difficulty Mr. Robinson, if his poem was to be really successful, had to overcome. But this the very introspection and sensitivity with which he has invested Tristram and Isolt make them unreal. They move behind veils, they are half hidden in a midst. Not always, of course; occasionally...
...soundness of the reasoning is not so much to be questioned as the futility of bothering one's self with this subject. Far from subscribing to the doctrine that "the King can do no wrong" it nevertheless seems to be the logical feeling that insomuch as universities and colleges are put in charge of administrators who are given full powers of control it is to be presumed that they will not violate their trust. Critics of administration methods fall to see that men placed in charge of the operation of the universities and running of such institutions and anything they...