Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which go to each university as long as the two institutions continue to cooperate in the publication of "Art Studies". In making the gift, Mr. Sachs said "the creation of this foundation will, I hope, serve to emphasize, among graduates as well as in the public mind, the obvious fact that great universities are bound in friendship through their scholarship relations even more firmly than through their equally desirable relations on the athletic field...
...deemed his Provincetown Players a failure when they were an obvious success and was for beginning afresh on his ideal of a community playhouse. But he was 48 and Greece had called him since he was 16. They went. He built huts for them on Parnassos, shared his "drunkenly Greek" mind with the shepherds, revived Socratic dialogs beside the Acropolis, relived his whole life, by memory and poetry, garbed as a Delphic shepherd. He died there (1924) of glanders contracted by nursing a stray puppy...
Step-sister to "Merry Merry", the relationship is quite obvious. It has good music and a good cast and the plot is more original than Sunny...
...care more for their own consistency than for human rights. The real enemies of our institutions are nomen like Sacco and Vanzettil whose criticisms are outspoken and can be met, while their constructions are Utoplan. Our real enemies are those who defend the indefensible, who refuse to acknowledge errors obvious to all thoughtful men, and who defer to lesser interests that primary concern for justice without which no law is worthy of respect and no government worthy of obedience
...truth so obvious as to be almost a platitude that what seems radical to a previous generation is a common place twenty five years later. Not only is this true in the customs and ideas which go to make up life in general, but it can perhaps be seen even more clearly in the arts and no where in the arts more obviously than in music. Wagner for example was looked upon by many of our grandparents in the same way in which the more conservative members of the present generation look upon the cacaphonus mechanics of modern workers...