Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauty lies as much in the fact that it is a movement as in any inherent qualities. But "Youth" has turned against the ways of former generations; it declares itself capable and desirous of managing the world in a new and better way, and it demands a chance. The obvious answer is "Wait a few years and the reins are yours". In time, however, youth ceases to be youth and becomes fixed, obese, immobile. The best service the "Youth" movement can do is to preserve the youthful enthusiasm, youthful willingness to try, and youthful open-mindedness of its followers even...
...tariff (which is extremely problematic) the President alone can make actual changes in rates, and might disregard the Commission's recommendations. But the fact remains that he has greatly enlarged his powers, however he may choose to exercise them. He may make changes to remedy only the obvious defects of the law as they develop in practice. His friends say this is his intention. But he, or some later President, out of sympathy with the law, might choose to take the making of the tariff entirely into the hands of the Executive...
...fundamentally moral dissertation to prove that the world cannot be reformed overnight, and that common sense can usually conquer pure idealism. It is serious, emotional, dramatic, interesting. Perhaps it is too serious and too emotional--there is rather too much oratory, and the sentiment is a little too obvious. The author, like his hero, seems too much imbued with the spirit of romanticism to suit this twentieth century taste; but he does well in spite of his defects, and the acting carries the whole through to a happy conclusion...
...Buenos Aires Prize for Letters in 1920 is not for light entertainment or easy reading. It is a thoughtful and sincere plea for the investigation and improvement of the so-called lower world in a great South American city. Its moral earnestness and stern purpose keep it from the obvious morbidness and distasteful pictures its plot inevitably suggests. Dr. Monsalvat, the hero, tries to rescue Nacha Regules from her cabaret life; and from the study of her position is led to begin a campaign for the salvation of all such characters. The pleading and sociology of the book rather...
...proofs are still unconvincing to such a scientist as Steinmetz, who declares: " It is obvious that the alleged manifestations of spiritism must be fake, or self-deception, since they are manifestations of energy." Steinmetz holds the Kantian philosophy, that the noumenal world (of spirit) and the phenomenal world (of matter and energy) are absolutely separate realms of experience. Conan Doyle says that " nothing is as dogmatic as science." He has finished his lectures in New York and will tour the United States showing his "spirit photographs." The "new church" may or may not spring up in his wake...