Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must not fear to be accused of being provincial. Rome is the eternal centre of all civilizations. It is far more provincial to be afraid to appear provincial than to have courage to be oneself with sincerity and pride...
...have had some experience with American life, if possible in other parts of America. It is not an easy task for any of us to get accurate and adequate impressions of a country which is not our own. Few men know much about their own country, and to train oneself as an observer abroad usually requires much experience. There are many things in which all countries and all civilizations are mor or less alike. Thanks to this modern era of communication, we draw in all parts of the world upon much the same sources of supply...
...large numbers of people (and the writer includes himself in this category) to whom any sort of lecture or sermon is a well-nigh intolerable infiction, and if one is compelled to sit still while somebody continuously talks on a subject which one can more comfortably read for oneself, one develops an attitude of mind resistant to all influence...
...potentialities for wholesale excitment which Cline offers are endless--lycanthropy, vampirism, astrology, and an isolated manor on the Hudson. All the paraphernalia are there, and it is irritating, having settled oneself for an evening of keeping hair and scalp connected, to have it descend into the customary muck of sex-repressions and eroticism. Mr. Cline commences by peopling his hall of horrors with supernatural terrors, and ends with a heavy-handed accent on the sexual...
Maps mean very little if anything in relation to getting where one wants to so, because inevitably one finds oneself back where one started, in exactly the same spot only several hours later. The best, course of action, therefore is if one can afford it, a taxi, thus enabling a person to see many quaint spots of the city and to experiment in the naive taxi rates in Boston, a system which has its basis on the theories that every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars...