Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Full House" March 21, reminded me of my own situation a few years back, in a five-person group crammed into a tiny two-bedroom suite in Winthrop House. At the same time, Winthrop had an unprecedented number of resident tutors. When I suggested in The Crimson on obvious remedy to our predicament, namely reducing the swollen ranks of the rather useless tutors, the response was immediate: a menacing answering machine message from one tutor and an invitation to the Senior Tutor's office for a dressing down for my "ingratitude...
...must be obvious to the least informed student of Psychology that here is one of the outcrops of a Freudian repression. The mentality of these marginal annotators, to judge from their manuscript, is somewhat lower than that of the higher Simiidae, and on a level with that of an usher in the movies, an amen-snorter in a Cumberland plateau camp-meeting, or a Dr. Frank Crane. Therefore, in any gathering of civilized men, they are compelled to remain silent, and this for two reasons: first, because they cannot understand the conversation; and second, because their remarks cause rude mirth...
...suppose that here he means to constitute himself the judge of what the public thinks) have been forced to realize that these principles (i.e., freedom of speech and the press) have reacted to the detriment of the public welfare which they were purposed to benefit." The obvious moral is that in the case of Bolshevists the public weal (or Mr. Leach's interpretation of it) should supersede the law. But suppose the public-or some court-should get the idea that Mr. Leach's speeches and letters were detrimental to the public welfare. What then, Mr. Leach? ROBERT M. BENJAMIN...
...most promising bit of work is Mr. Low's story, "Coudreaux." It has obvious faults of immaturity, such as the attempt to treat in so few pages a profound and powerful motive in which much depends upon thorough characterization; but its author reveals an embryonic skill in tense narrative and a frequent combination of force with stylistic sobriety which imply that he has studied the best French raconteurs, especially De Maupassant. The greater part of the verse is vitiated by the common modern misconception that poetry is more a matter of highly colored language or of vapory obscurities than...
...conditions which have caused Boston to be without a full Symphony are quite obvious. Every other prominent orchestra in the country has allowed its members to unionize. In New York the Philharmonic pays its violinists a minimum wage of seventy-five dollars a week; in Detroit but few symphony players receive as little as forty-five, while in Boston many are paid thirty-five dollars. As the men are prevented from unionizing their time is virtually at the mercy of the conductor and the trustees. Overtime pay, for extra work with the orchestra, earned by the more highly salaried musicians...