Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother, but of cousins, a system which frankly recognizes the inequalities of men and of the groups which they naturally form, and which combines such groups in an ascending line between horizontal and perpendicular. Among the cousin groups the only possible nexus, but in the author's opinion powerful enough, is the mutual respect and cooperation of good sportsmanship, the prevailing code among college...
...opinion, one of the most important causes for this impending collapse of our civilization is the demoralizing effect of the American motion picture upon the minds of the people of the world. Directors seem to want not only to please the public, but to educate them to the cheap things. We have reached a fine state of affairs indeed, when a bunch of ignorant movie directors try to improve upon the works of the world's greatest writers and as a result drag their masterpieces down to the level of cheap comedy. Look what they did when they...
Verbosity has been disposed of at the expense of unity. The objection that editorials are too wordy may be founded on actual fact, but they are, in most cases, at least an attempt to crystallize the general consensus of opinion; they try to be rather the expression of the student body than of the writer. Whether they are read or not, they are a criterion of student opinion that is accepted by the world at large. If a multiplicity of individual ideas is to be substituted for the digest offered by the editor, the force of the single expression will...
Occasional printing of correspondents opinion is a stimulus to editorial enterprise, but in omitting all comment, the newspaper forfeits much of its power to preserve any unity of principle. The function of the paper is that of the chairman in a debate, and it is this function which is surrendered with the disappearance of the writes editorial...
...secretary: "Honorable President Machado grants no importance to these matters which tend to create unjustified alarm while absolute peace and faith in its government and President exist in all the nation. . . As to the absolute untruthfulness of this information, the President would prefer that you apply for an opinion to the American embassy, or to any other member of the American colony, such as bankers, merchants, presidents of corporations...