Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great literature of human experience. The scientific views contained in it are the opinions of men of the time it was written. That these scientific views are the expressions of men inspired by God to teach the world, the Modernist does not believe, since to him many contradictions are obvious, and he regards the discoveries of science as in no way injurious to the teaching that he believes. Many of our greatest scientists are the most devout Christians...
...artist himself-there is no obvious reason why his work should end up exactly at seventy-five thousand words-and it is undoubtedly a hardship if the publisher holds out a standardized novel which everyone must imitate. Certainly this provides no stimulus for individual experimentation or for the development of new literary forms. But again, one must remember that experiments may prove costly to the publisher, and that the standardizing of sizes inevitably results in cheaper production and probably works to the public good. How these conflicting interests may be reconciled is not at once apparent...
Playwright Zangwill tries almost forcibly to be fair. He admits the young must indulge their craving for self-expression, while the old should give more pats on the head and fewer raps on the knuckle. But it is obvious that he really bows before Kipling's God of Things as They Are. It is Zangwill determined to grow old gracefully. He is intent on raising the dust by thumping sofa cushions which have already had the stuffing knocked out of them by numerous writers. His stodgy play is only occasionally relieved with flashes of wit, and sudden fits...
...last infirmity of noble minds", and stupidity the most coveted of encomiums. In their searching compilations of the biographies of great men, they find that Genius has been largely accustomed to growing up "study free." Napoleon looms out with a colossal capacity for mental vacuity, and the moral is obvious; set a lazy man to catch a dullard. Wellington was notoriously lazy. Blucher, by some mysterious prefiguration, early showed signs of his later forte by earning for himself the sobriquet of the "last-place pupil".--Waterloo was to see him starring in his old position, with Wellington showing that laziness...
...Shipping Board budgets. The experience of the past few years seems to prophesy all too plainly that with the passing of the famous clipper ships went forever American mercantile supremacy. Various explanations have been offered which characteristically center in an abuse of government management, but the almost obvious reason is the same that prevented the development of a merchant marine before the war--the fact that Americans cannot compete profitably with English shippers...