Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair. I do not question, and I doubt if Lindbergh would question, the fact that the crass vulgarities of Nemo and his type are true reflections of character. Even if addled adolescents were not so noisily boastful about their Scollay Square standards, the same would be as obvious as dirty finger nails. No one disputes their preference for bawds, flasks and vacuums. It is easy to believe that their taste is genuine. By the same token one can readily admit the looseness of their code of business ethics. If they were on the other end of a Government contract...
...that all of the basic problems, all of the really sensational problems of our society, should not be touched; the large type is reserved for those who are either helpless or insignificant, who can be expected to feel the storm without retaliation. Superintendent Gill of Norfolk presented an obvious opportunity. He is a subordinate state official, engaged in a revolutionary penal experiment, without important political or financial backing. He has, as the administrator of sizeable appropriations, made many important political enemies. Prisons are good copy for the sensational journalist; the common-place of any prison life, skillfully stated, can easily...
...that they might afford to grant more time to it, but does not press the argument because of the present straightened circumstances of University finances. However, if the two most important aspects of the development of education at Harvard are the tutorial system and the House plan, it is obvious that an improved advisory system is imperative; for the choice of concentration field, tutor, and House must all be made in the first year, before it is possible for the student to have formed a competent basis for judgment. An excellent tutor in Mathematics is of little avail...
...obvious alternative to this is Fascist dictatorship, the upper classes dominating the lower. Mussolini's black shirts represent this, though nationalism and post-war collapse confused the issue somewhat, and it is this toward which Hitler is tending...
...getting it back again. Samuel Insull did not pervert the systems of capitalistic finance, and he is not a big had wolf. Only in the crescendo does the theme become manifest, and only in a simon-pure capitalist like Mr. Insull do the real implications of capitalism become obvious and legible...