Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the object of the Republican Senatorial caucus will be to elect a floor leader to succeed Mr. Lodge. Due to the deaths of Messrs. Lodge, Colt and Brandegee, places must be filled on the committees for Foreign Relations (two), Immigration (one), Judiciary (two), Naval Affairs (two), Library...
...reason for believing that this was the case was that the ever increasing interest in Economics was gradually replacing the study of Art and the Classics in our Universities. I believed this to be a symptom of decay because Economics is in general studied with the selfish and mercenary object in mind of being able to make money more efficiently, while Art and the Classics are generally studied because of a disinterested love for knowledge. When avarice and selfishness begin to be dominant in any institution: state, church or university, that institution invariably enters upon its decline...
...Newman is unmerciful to the man Wagner. His object is not, however to condemn him, but to make him the more real by the contrast of his pettiness and infirmities of character with his essential greatness of achievement. There is an enormous gap, we find, between the man and the artist?"the most many-sided of musicians...
...contributed his first full-length play in two seasons and, many say, the best play of his invention. It is not a gentle evening, this beating with the hammer of tragedy on the rock pile of New England farmlife. It is the kind of thing the spectator will object to on the score that existence cannot possibly be so brutal. A young wife of an old farmer forfeits her claim to beatitude by lusting after the farmer's son. The latter couple have a child which stands between its father and his stony heritage of farmland. He corrodes what...
...Stevenson Myth." It is an open question whether Stevenson is loved more for his work or his work for him. Certainly the worship of authors has never gone to greater lengths?lengths possibly of questionable value to their object. Idolatry has made of R. L. S. a figure dizzily perched on the precarious eminence of perfection. He is permitted no faults, no weaknesses?other than the exalted one of physical ill-health. On the other hand, there have been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile...